Inpatient virtual shared medical appointments to improve health literacy, increase patient self-efficacy, and reduce provider burnout in acute cerebrovascular pathology patients and their caregivers: a pilot study

CONCLUSIONS: Implementation of a vSMA program at a tertiary care center during a pandemic was feasible. Themes caregivers expressed on the postsession survey included better understanding of caring for a stroke patient and coping with the unpredictability of a patient's prognosis. The pandemic has precipitated shifts toward telehealth, but this study highlights the importance of avoiding marginalization of elderly and less technologically inclined populations.PMID:35921191 | DOI:10.3171/2022.4.FOCUS21764

Source: Neurosurgical Focus - August 3, 2022 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Uma V Mahajan Neha Sharma Marquis Maynard Lei Kang Collin M Labak Alankrita Raghavan Martha Sajatovic Alan Hoffer Berje H Shammassian James M Wright Xiaofei Zhou Christina Huang Wright Source Type: research