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Telemedicine and computer-based technologies during coronavirus disease 2019 infection; a chance to educate and diagnose

Jafarzadeh Esfehani, R ; Sharif University of Technology | 2020

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.34172/aim.2020.60
  3. Publisher: Academy of Medical Sciences of I.R. Iran , 2020
  4. Abstract:
  5. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is now of global concern due to its rapid dissemination across the globe. The rapid spread of this viral infection, along with many of its unknown aspects, has posed new challenges to the health care systems. The main challenging effects of COVID-19 are rapid dissemination through close contact and varying clinical severity among different individuals. Furthermore, the medical staff in endemic areas are becoming exhausted and deal with a considerable level of job burnout, which can negatively affect their medical decision making. Also, due to the variable pulmonary manifestations of COVID-19, some physicians may misdiagnose patients. To overcome these issues, we proposed a web-based software to aid physicians in detecting possible COVID-19 cases through online consultation with different specialists and educate the not-well experienced physicians. Our results demonstrated that this software could improve the diagnostic rate for not-well experienced physicians. © 2020 The Author(s)
  6. Keywords:
  7. Coronavirus ; Telemedicine ; Clinical decision making ; Computer assisted diagnosis ; Computer assisted tomography ; Coronavirus disease 2019 ; Diagnostic accuracy ; Education ; Human ; Multidisciplinary team ; Physician ; Teleconsultation ; Betacoronavirus ; Coronavirus infection ; Laboratory technique ; Pandemic ; Virus pneumonia ; Clinical laboratory techniques ; Coronavirus infections ; Diagnosis, computer-assisted ; Humans ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia, Viral ; Software
  8. Source: Archives of Iranian Medicine ; Volume 23, Issue 8 , 2020 , Pages 561-563
  9. URL: http://www.aimjournal.ir/Article/aim-17209