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RSV: Recognizing RSV Symptoms in Adults

Doctor On Demand

RSV Diagnosis Using Telehealth Adults can easily get an online diagnosis for RSV using telehealth services which allow a diagnosis from the comfort of your home. To start, you can schedule a video appointment with a board-certified doctor through the Doctor On Demand telehealth app or website.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Deliver the program via an interdisciplinary healthcare team. Given practical constraints in many healthcare settings, who are the minimum essential team members for multidisciplinary management of weight loss in older adults? In the past several years, telehealth has opened tremendous opportunities to improve access to care.

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When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

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This may mean you’re not getting enough oxygen, which can cause serious complications. When to use telehealth for chest congestion Use telehealth, also known as virtual care , for chest congestion when symptoms are mild to moderate and you need medical advice, prescriptions, or a treatment plan.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

We started pre-pandemic and very quickly it went to telehealth, so it was primarily telehealth. Most places had one visit that had to be face-to-face because of prescribing and regulatory issues, but it was primarily telehealth. It’s complicated because right now there’s no mechanism other than cost avoidance.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? Marie 16:30 I actually don’t think it matters if you can establish rapport and if you do good telehealth etiquette, which is seeing who else is in the room, addressing everybody that was there, et cetera. Would you do it again?