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Question: Among child and adolescent psychiatry patients in a rural community, what are the cost savings of telemedicine consultations?
Question type: Descriptive cost analysis
Study design: Prospective
Investigators from the Center for Telemedicine and Telehealth at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) and the University of Missouri examined records of 257 pediatric and adolescent psychiatric consultations provided to 132 children from a telemedicine site at KUMC in Kansas City to a remote facility in southeastern rural Kansas (Crawford County, 136 miles away) over a six-month period from January 1 to June 30, 2006. The KUMC “telemental” health outreach program, in existence for 15 years, has provided telepsychiatric services to children and adolescents living in a region served by one child psychiatrist. …
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