Emory university telehealth neuropsychology development and implementation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Objectives: Emory University has modified its clinical practices across specialties in response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic to provide service delivery while maintaining patient, staff, and faculty safety. This report shares current solutions and workarounds associated with telehealth neuropsychol...

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Vydané v:Clinical neuropsychologist Ročník 34; číslo 7-8; s. 1352 - 1366
Hlavní autori: Hewitt, Kelsey C., Loring, David W.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: England Routledge 16.11.2020
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Academic Medical Centers - methods
Academic Medical Centers - trends
Betacoronavirus
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - psychology
Coronavirus Infections - therapy
COVID-19
Humans
implementation
Neuropsychological Tests
Neuropsychology - methods
Neuropsychology - trends
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - psychology
Pneumonia, Viral - therapy
program development
Program Development - methods
SARS-CoV-2
telehealth
telemedicine
Telemedicine - methods
Telemedicine - trends
Telepsychology
program development
telemedicine
Telepsychology
telehealth
implementation
ISSN:1385-4046, 1744-4144, 1744-4144
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Shrnutí:Objectives: Emory University has modified its clinical practices across specialties in response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic to provide service delivery while maintaining patient, staff, and faculty safety. This report shares current solutions and workarounds associated with telehealth neuropsychology (teleNP) while also recognizing teleNP opportunities. Results: We modified many measures from our traditional assessment protocols so they could be administered through Zoom. To maximize quality control, formal how-to coversheets and manuals were developed for both training and task administration (i.e. navigating Zoom assessment interfaces, practicing adapted test instructions, and troubleshooting). Conclusions: TeleNP has been successfully used to answer referral questions regarding deep brain stimulation (DBS) candidacy in Parkinson's disease patients and presence of mild neurocognitive impairment in patients with subjective memory decline. Our current protocols will continue to evolve with greater experience and are not considered to be a finished product. Nevertheless, development of robust teleNP protocols should expand availability of neuropsychology in both clinical and research applications while simultaneously decreasing assessment burden associated with traveling - sometimes long distances - for diagnostic neuropsychological evaluation.
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ISSN:1385-4046
1744-4144
1744-4144
DOI:10.1080/13854046.2020.1791960