Overview
- Unique and state-of-the-art review of IBD and its management through telemedicine applications
- Features a summary of the impact of telemedicine in other chronic illnesses
- Written by experts in their fields
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This volume provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of inflammatory bowel disease and its management through the use of telemedicine applications. The book reviews barriers to successful outcomes in patients with IBD and offers a rationale for how self-management and telemedicine approaches can improve care in chronic illnesses such as IBD. This volume also includes a summary of the burden of telephone encounters in patients with IBD, characteristics of frequent callers to the office, outcomes associated with high telephone use, and strategies to provide education via telephone to patients with IBD. Prior literature on implementation of teleconsultation in research and clinical practice, as well as mobile applications used to track symptoms, quality of life, diet, and medication use in IBD are also explored in the book.
Written by experts in the field, Telemanagement of Inflammatory Bowel Disease is a valuable resource for gastroenterologists, surgeons, a
nd other clinicians dealing with, and interested in, this novel adjunct to routine care for inflammatory bowel disease.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Raymond K. Cross, MD, MS, AGAF
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the IBD Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Baltimore, MD, USA
Andrew R. Watson, MD, MLitt., FACS
Vice-President, International Division, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Telemanagement of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Editors: Raymond K. Cross, Andrew R. Watson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22285-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22284-4Published: 27 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36397-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22285-1Published: 16 October 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 194
Topics: Gastroenterology, Surgery