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Andrés Frid, SantiagoCorresponding Author
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Telemedicine for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections During 2018 Epidemiological Outbreak in South America

Publicated to:Studies In Health Technology And Informatics. 264 586-590 - 2019-01-01 264(), DOI: 10.3233/shti190290

Authors: Andres Frid, Santiago; Grande Ratti, Maria Florencia; Pedretti, Ana; Pollan, Javier; Martinez, Bernardo; Lopez Abreu, Alejandro; Diodati, Gloria; Lopez, Gaston; Sommer, Janine; Luna, Daniel; Plazzotta, Fernando

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Hosp Italiano Buenos Aires, Dept Hlth Informat, Juan Domingo Peron 4190,C1181ACH, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina - Author
Hosp Italiano Buenos Aires, Dept Internal Med, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina - Author

Abstract

Telemedicine is an increasingly used strategy for providing care to patients. The prevention and treatment of Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URTIs) during outbreaks still require new management approaches. We aimed to describe patients' characteristics and the care process after the creation and implementation of a virtual care program for patients with URTI during the epidemiological outbreak. We studied all consultations that took place between May, 21st, and September, 14th 2018 at Hospital Italian de Buenos Aires (HIBA). After applying exclusion criteria 218 consultations were left for the analysis. Most patients did not need a referral to a care center for a face-to-face assessment. The consultation rate to the Emergency Department (ED) within 7 days was 11.92% (26/218) with a 95% CI of 7.94-16.99%. This new approach in patient care has a great potential for relieving the overcrowding in EDs, decreasing waiting times and preventing the infection spread in waiting rooms.

Keywords
Disease outbreaksHumansReferral and consultationRespiratory tract infectionsSouth americaTelemedicinTelemedicineUpper respiratory tract infections

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Studies In Health Technology And Informatics, Q3 Agency Scopus (SJR), its regional focus and specialization in Health Informatics, give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 4.94, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions May 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-05-17, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 12
  • Scopus: 17
  • Europe PMC: 8
  • OpenCitations: 6
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-17:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 37.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 37 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Argentina.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Andrés Frid, Santiago) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Andrés Frid, Santiago.