Since May 2011, patients have been entitled by law to get a secondary care consultation
within three months after being referred from primary health care (Health care act). There …

We carried out a prospective study of the effect of neurosurgical teleconsultations on patient
management in northern Norway. The total number of teleradiology image transfers during …

Background and Aims Patients often wait many months to see a neurologist for the first time.
With the introduction of targets for maximum waiting times there is a need for novel …

We investigated whether new patients attending a neurological outpatient clinic could be
safely managed by neurologists at a distance, using a video-link. In Northern Ireland, a …

Abstract Background Although Norway is well known for its early use of telemedicine to
provide services for people in rural and remote areas in the Arctic, little is known about the …

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that telemedicine for new patient referrals to neurological
outpatients is as efficient and acceptable as conventional face to face consultation …

In a retrospective review, the telemedical management of 65 outpatients from a randomized
controlled trial (RCT) of telemedicine for non-urgent referrals to a consultant neurologist was …

Objective Our aim is to explore the common challenges encountered by neurologists in
telemedicine. Methods We performed a cross-sectional study via an anonymous survey to …

A neurology teleconsulting network was implemented between a university hospital in
Lisbon and five nearby health centres. PCs equipped for videoconferencing were installed …

We conducted a randomized case control study of referrals from a primary care centre in
Finland. All the consultations and referrals from seven general practitioners (GPs) dealt with …