Analysis of Telemedicine Suitability and its Economic Effects
trauma
The consideration of the health provider’s perspective comprised a bilateral analysis. In the first step, it was investigated whether telemedicine is suitable for hospitals in the follow-up care of patients in orthopedic and trauma surgery. As suggested by current literature, the investigation of video consultations’ suitability focused on the effectiveness of physician-patient communication and service provided in the form of a technology evaluation [The descriptive analysis of the questionnaires included the presentation of the mean, SD, median, and relative frequencies. In addition, the Mann-Whitney In a second step, the economic effects of the use of video consultations were evaluated. These economic calculations comprised 4 different aspects with various sensitivity analyses and were guided by recommendations for health economic analyses in the context of eHealth interventions [