SynthesisBMC medical informatics and decision making2001
Clinical outcomes resulting from telemedicine interventions: a systematic review.
Synthesis in BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00221455 (The Potential of Technology to Improve Chronic Disease Management and Quality of Care), which is not on this map. Cited by 49 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Potential of Technology to Improve Chronic Disease Management and Quality of Care
Who cites it
49 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 237 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Interactive telemedicine: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- The impact of mobile health interventions on chronic disease outcomes in developing countries: a systematic review.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2014Pooled it
- Telemedicine for the support of parents of high-risk newborn infants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Priorities for Rural Lymphoma Survivors: A Qualitative Study.Clinical lymphoma, myeloma & leukemia · 2020Trial
- Use of an Internet portal to improve community-based pediatric ADHD care: a cluster randomized trial.Pediatrics · 2011Trial
- The Informatics for Diabetes and Education Telemedicine (IDEATel) project.Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association · 2007Trial
- A randomized trial comparing telemedicine case management with usual care in older, ethnically diverse, medically underserved patients with diabetes mellitus.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIATrial
- Remote Digital Health Interventions to Support the Physical, Functional, or Psychological Rehabilitation of Adult Patients With Major Traumatic Injuries: Protocol for a Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Evaluation Methods in Clinical Health Technologies: A Systematic Review.Iranian journal of public health · 2023Review
- Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychology: Insights and Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2023Article
- Use of Wearable and Wireless Technology in Real-World Clinical Settings to Improve Patient Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Mixed Methods Pilot Prospective Trial.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2023Article
- Clinical Evaluation of the ButterfLife Device for Simultaneous Multiparameter Telemonitoring in Hospital and Home Settings.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Advances in Psychotherapy for Older Adults Using Video-to-Home Treatment.Advances in psychiatry and behavioral health · 2022Review
- Neuropsychological effects of COVID-19: A review.Brain and behavior · 2022Review
- Telemonitoring in Long-COVID Patients-Preliminary Findings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Prediction of Glucose Concentration in Children with Type 1 Diabetes Using Neural Networks: An Edge Computing Application.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Understanding Telemedicine's "New Normal": Variations in Telemedicine Use by Specialty Line and Patient Demographics.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2022Article
- Perspectives on Telemedicine during the Era of COVID-19; What Can Saudi Arabia Do?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe use of telemedicine is growing, but its efficacy for achieving comparable or improved clinical outcomes has not been established in many medical specialties. The objective of this systematic review was to evaluate the efficacy of telemedicine interventions for health outcomes in two classes of application: home-based and office/hospital-based.
methodsData sources for the study included deports of studies from the MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and HealthSTAR databases; searching of bibliographies of review and other articles; and consultation of printed resources as well as investigators in the field. We included studies that were relevant to at least one of the two classes of telemedicine and addressed the assessment of efficacy for clinical outcomes with data of reported results. We excluded studies where the service did not historically require face-to-face encounters (e.g., radiology or pathology diagnosis). All included articles were abstracted and graded for quality and direction of the evidence.
resultsA total of 25 articles met inclusion criteria and were assessed. The strongest evidence for the efficacy of telemedicine in clinical outcomes comes from home-based telemedicine in the areas of chronic disease management, hypertension, and AIDS. The value of home glucose monitoring in diabetes mellitus is conflicting. There is also reasonable evidence that telemedicine is comparable to face-to-face care in emergency medicine and is beneficial in surgical and neonatal intensive care units as well as patient transfer in neurosurgery.
conclusionsDespite the widespread use of telemedicine in virtually all major areas of health care, evidence concerning the benefits of its use exists in only a small number of them. Further randomized controlled trials must be done to determine where its use is most effective.
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