Piloting a Telehealth Interprofessional Diabetes Clinic During Covid 19: Continuing patient care and student learning. Academic Article

abstract

• Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of faculty from dietetics, nursing, pharmacy, and social work converted a long-standing effective Interprofessional Team Care Clinic (IPTCC) at two outpatient health centers to a telehealth clinic during 2020 and 2021. Preliminary data suggest that this pilot telehealth clinic for patients with diabetes or prediabetes was effective in significantly lowering average hemoglobin A1C levels and increasing students' perceived interprofessional skills. This article describes the pilot telehealth interprofessional model used to educate students and provide patient care, outlines preliminary data about its effectiveness, and makes recommendations for future research and practice.

authors

• Rowe, Gina

published proceedings

• Soc Work Health Care

altmetric score

• 0.25

author list (cited authors)

• Pittman, J., Congdon, H. B., Rowe, G. C., Nathanson, B., McShane, P., & Shields, R.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Pittman, Joan||Congdon, Heather Brennan||Rowe, Gina C||Nathanson, Barbara||McShane, Phyllis||Shields, Rhonique

publication date

• April 2023

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Social Work in Health Care: the journal of health care work  Journal

keywords

• Covid-19
• Diabetes
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Humans
• Interprofessional
• Interprofessional Relations
• Pandemics
• Patient Care
• Students, Health Occupations
• Telehealth
• Telemedicine

PubMed Central ID

• 36907184

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/00981389.2023.2183927

start page

• 59

end page

• 72

volume

• 62

issue

• 2-4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2023.2183927