Experience With a Rural Telepsychiatry Clinic for Children and Adolescents
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in Psychiatric Services
- Vol. 50 (2) , 260-261
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.2.260
Abstract
Access to child and adolescent psychiatric services in many rural areas is limited by lack of physicians and long travel times. A child and adolescent telepsychiatry clinic that is part of the University of Kansas Medical Center's telemedicine program addresses this problem by linking the medical center with a county mental health center in rural Pittsburg, Kansas. The clinic receives ten to 18 visits a week and has been able to serve severely disturbed children and children in crisis. The quality of clinical interactions in the telepsychiatry clinic appears comparable to that in face-to-face meetings.Keywords
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