Teleconsultation experience with the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: a prospective observational cohort study during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Published in: Rheumatology international Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 67 - 76
• Main Authors: Naveen, R., Sundaram, T. G., Agarwal, Vikas, Gupta, Latika
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.01.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Case-Control Studies; Child; Cohort analysis; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Disease Progression; Female; Humans; India; Inflammatory diseases; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Musculoskeletal diseases; Myositis - classification; Myositis - therapy; Observational Research; Observational studies; Pandemics; Prospective Studies; Rheumatology; SARS-CoV-2; Telemedicine; Telemedicine - methods; Telemedicine - statistics & numerical data; Text Messaging; India; Teleconsultation; COVID-19; Myositis; Triage; Remote consultation

Teleconsultation has assumed a central role in the management of chronic and disabling rheumatic diseases, such as the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM), during COVID-19. However, the feasibility, challenges encountered, and outcomes remain largely unexplored. Here, we describe our teleconsul...