Australian private practice metropolitan telepsychiatry during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of Quarter-2, 2020 usage of new MBS-telehealth item psychiatrist services | Zendy

Jeffrey CL Looi | Zendy; Stephen Allison | Zendy; Tarun Bastiampillai | Zendy; William Pring | Zendy; Rebecca E. Reay | Zendy

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Australian private practice metropolitan telepsychiatry during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of Quarter-2, 2020 usage of new MBS-telehealth item psychiatrist services

Author(s) -

Jeffrey CL Looi,

Stephen Allison,

Tarun Bastiampillai,

William Pring,

Rebecca E. Reay

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

australasian psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.444

H-Index - 38

eISSN - 1440-1665

pISSN - 1039-8562

DOI - 10.1177/1039856220975294

Subject(s) - telehealth , quarter (canadian coin) , telepsychiatry , telemedicine , medicine , pandemic , context (archaeology) , covid-19 , videoconferencing , metropolitan area , family medicine , medical emergency , health care , multimedia , disease , political science , paleontology , archaeology , pathology , biology , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , history

The Australian Commonwealth Government introduced new psychiatrist Medicare-Benefits-Schedule (MBS)-telehealth items in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic to assist with previously office-based psychiatric practice. We investigate private psychiatrists' uptake of (1) video- and telephone-telehealth consultations for Quarter-2 (April-June) of 2020 and (2) total telehealth and face-to-face consultations in Quarter-2, 2020 in comparison to Quarter-2, 2019 for Australia.

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