title: The initiation of a preoperative and postoperative telemedicine urology clinic.
abstract: This work describes the establishment of a Telemedicine Urology Clinic at the VA Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska to serve an underserved veteran population in rural Nebraska. Results from patient satisfaction surveys show that both the patient and the healthcare provider benefit from the telemedicine encounter for both the preoperative and the postoperative setting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-2360, USA. epark@unmc.edu
authors.forename: Eugene S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Ben H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Boedeker
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Hemstreet
authors.forename: George P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Hemstreet
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009329:Nebraska; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000379:methods; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000379:methods; D019114:Remote Consultation / Q000379:methods*; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D014572:Urology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014584:User-Computer Interface