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Teledermatology is a subspecialty in the medical field of dermatology and probably one of the most common applications of telemedicine and e-health. [1] In teledermatology, telecommunication technologies are used to exchange medical information (concerning skin conditions and tumours of the skin) over a distance using audio, visual, and data communication.
For example, it has been used to assess novel drugs, [37] models of clinical care, in audit of clinical services and in assessment of teledermatology. [36] The DLQI is the most widely used quality of life outcome measure in randomised controlled trials of therapies for psoriasis.
The Journal of Dermatological Treatment is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal that covers all aspects of the treatment of skin disease, including the use of topical and systematically administered drugs and other forms of therapy.
Teledermatology is a form of dermatological practice in which telecommunication technologies are used to exchange medical information and treatment through audio, visual, and data communication, including photos of dermatologic conditions, between dermatologists and nondermatologists who are evaluating patients, along with dermatologists ...
This may enable increased flexibility, improved disease surveillance, better medical product safety surveillance, [32] better public health monitoring (such as for evaluation of health policy effectiveness), [33] [34] increased quality of care (via guidelines [35] and improved medical history sharing [36] [37]), and novel life-saving treatments.
Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and the rate by which Texas women died from pregnancy related complications doubled from 2010 to 2014, to 23.8 per 100,000. A rate unmatched in any other U.S. state or economically developed country.
On March 15, 2005, six-month-old infant Sun Hudson, who had a lethal congenital malformation, was one of the first children to have care withdrawn under the Texas Futile Treatment Law. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Doctors demonstrated in the ethics committee reviews that keeping the infant on a respirator would only delay his inevitable death.
The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, sometimes abbreviated JAAD, is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering dermatology.It was established in 1979 and is published by Elsevier on behalf of the American Academy of Dermatology, of which it is the official journal. [1]