Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria (Sep 2022)

Feasibility of telemedicine for patients with parkinsonism in the Brazilian public health system

  • Daniel Teixeira Santos,
  • Daniel Monte Freire Camelo,
  • Matheus Zschornack Strelow,
  • Maysa Tayane Santos Silva,
  • Paula Führ,
  • Letícia Winer Marins,
  • Artur Francisco Schumacher-Schuh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1755323
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 80, no. 09
pp. 914 – 921

Abstract

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Background Telemedicine for patients with parkinsonism is feasible, cost-effective and satisfactory. However, the feasibility of this modality of care for this subpopulation is not known in real-life scenarios of developing countries like Brazil.

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