Figures
- FIGURE 1
Shift to remote consulting in hospitals and primary care in the United Kingdom (UK) in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. a) Hospital outpatient consultations; b) general practice consultations. Reproduced and modified from [22] with permission.
- FIGURE 2
Growth in use of a United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service video-conferencing platform (Near Me) at the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Reproduced and modified from [81] with permission.
- FIGURE 3
Percentage of countries reporting disruption to noncommunicable disease (NCD) services during the pandemic. This “snapshot” of the disruption to NCD care from a World Health Organization survey of 163 countries worldwide was conducted in June 2020, so represents the early impact of the pandemic. Reproduced from [19] under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 InterGovernmental Organization licence.
- FIGURE 4
Remote consulting in a sleep apnoea service (Dumfries and Galloway, UK).
- FIGURE 5
Telerehabilitation. Patients monitor vital signs using Bluetooth-enabled wearable monitors that transmit data to a cloud-based platform via an application installed onto the tablet. Health professionals can log in and see if the patient has uploaded data, and provide feedback [145].
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- Introduction
- Remote access to consultations
- Maintaining care for respiratory noncommunicable diseases
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