Introduction: Teleconsultations are a useful approach for triaging patients and reducing unnecessary visits to emergency departments. Scheduled teleconsultations allow the evaluation, monitoring, follow-up of outpatients who do not require face-to-face assessment. bring multiple possibilities in case pandemic, where authorities may request or impose community isolation, closing borders, limitat...

ABSTRACT Objective: to estimate the cost of setting up and monthly operation a teleconsultation room. Method: descriptive study, carried out by means survey direct indirect costs for room in Niterói - RJ BR. The data analysis was based on discrimination type quantity equipment needed set room; budgets obtained through research public tenders commercial stores. To running costs, following were c...