Dietitians Australia position statement on telehealth
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Allman-Farinelli, Margaret
Chen, Juliana
Partridge, Stephanie R
Collins, Clare
Rollo, Megan
Haslam, Rebecca
Diversi, Tara
Campbell, Katrina L
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It is the position of Dietitians Australia that clients can receive high-quality and effective dietetic services such as Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) delivered via telehealth. Outcomes of telehealth-delivered dietetic consultations are comparable to those delivered in-person, without requiring higher levels of additional training nor compromising quality of service provision. Dietitians Australia recommends that policy makers and healthcare funders broaden the recognition for telehealth-delivered dietetic consultations as a responsive and cost-effective alternative or complement to traditional in-person delivery of dietetic services. The successful implementation of telehealth can help to address health and service inequalities, improve access to effective nutrition services, and support people with chronic disease to optimise their diet-related health and well-being, regardless of their location, income or literacy level, thereby addressing current inequities.
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© 2020 The Authors. Nutrition & Dietetics published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Dietitians Australia. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
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Food sciences
Nutrition and dietetics
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Life Sciences & Biomedicine
chronic disease
diet
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Kelly, JT; Allman-Farinelli, M; Chen, J; Partridge, SR; Collins, C; Rollo, M; Haslam, R; Diversi, T; Campbell, KL, Dietitians Australia position statement on telehealth, Nutrition & Dietetics, 2020