Cure8 research brief
Telenursing is increasingly used for chronic IBD care; understanding the limits and system factors that affect remote assessment matters because it influences how reliably nurses can detect and respond to flares and other urgent issues.
IBD nurses, clinic managers and telehealth program designers, gastroenterologists overseeing remote care, and health services researchers interested in telemedicine for chronic disease.
Nurses reported challenges performing clinical assessment by voice only and variability in triage decisions when standardised protocols were absent. Workload burden and fragmented workflows reduced efficiency, and some patients faced access or context mismatches with telenursing.
The authors mapped these findings to sociotechnical domains (people, processes, technologies, environment) and suggested levers such as structured information collection, adaptable triage standards, better workflow integration, and flexible care pathways to strengthen early identification and management of exacerbations.
Practical perspective: The paper focuses on service design rather than specific medical treatments; it highlights actionable system changes (assessment templates, decision support, workflow redesign) that health services could pilot to improve remote IBD care. It does not test interventions or report clinical outcomes.
This article is a qualitative study from Japan based on interviews with 20 registered nurses and uses sociotechnical mapping; it reports perceptions and system insights rather than measured patient outcomes or tested interventions.
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