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ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2011

Telemedicine or telephone consultation in patients with acute stroke.

Bart M Demaerschalk

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Review in Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A systematic review of healthcare applications for smartphones.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2012
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  7. Telemedicine as a tool to bring clinical ethics expertise to remote locations.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bart M DemaerschalkDepartment of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 5777 East Mayo Boulevard, Phoenix, AZ 85054, USA. demaerschalk.bart@mayo.edu
WinnMed · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The advantages of telephone consultations for patients with acute stroke syndromes are history of use, simplicity, availability, portability, short consultation time, and facile implementation. The favorable aspects of telemedicine consultations are high accuracy, reliability, efficacy, and effectiveness, the growing technological sophistication of the offerings and features, and the high grade of recommendation. Between the two modalities, telemedicine is optimal for assessing patients with acute stroke and superior to telephone-only evaluations. Telephone consultations can serve as an adequate ancillary, adjunctive, supplemental, or back-up modality for a telestroke network. With recent advances in one-way/two-way video and teleradiology features adapted to Smartphones, the dividing line between "telephone" and "telemedicine" consultations for acute stroke is indistinct. Telestroke providers prefer a figurative "tool belt" of technologies available to adapt to individual consultation requirements.

Indexed as

Remote ConsultationStrokeTelemedicineDiagnosis, DifferentialHealth Services AccessibilityHumansPatient Education as TopicPatient SatisfactionRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicThrombolytic TherapyTime FactorsTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID20922505
OpenAlexW1994387647

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.