Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27143872›Full record

SynthesisInternational journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease2016

Do telemedical interventions improve quality of life in patients with COPD? A systematic review.

Thorbjørn L Gregersen, Allan Green, Ejvind Frausing, Thomas Ringbæk, Eva Brøndum, Charlotte Suppli Ulrik

Open access · goldAbstract readSystematic Review
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Synthesis in International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
50citing papers in PubMed, 9 pooled it
7.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

50 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Pooled it
  4. Pooled it
  5. Pooled it
  6. Pooled it
  7. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Telemonitoring Interventions on Severe COPD Exacerbations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
    Pooled it
  8. Pooled it
  9. Pooled it
  10. Trial
  11. Trial
  12. Trial
  13. Trial
  14. Effect of tele-health care on quality of life in patients with severe COPD: a randomized clinical trial.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2018
    Trial
  15. Trial
  16. Trial
  17. Digital health system for personalised COPD long-term management.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2017
    Trial
  18. Trial
  19. Review
  20. Article
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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Thorbjørn L GregersenDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark.
Allan GreenDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark.
Ejvind FrausingDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark.
Thomas RingbækDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark; Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Eva BrøndumDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark.
Charlotte Suppli UlrikDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark; Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hvidovre Hospital · DKUniversity of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTelehealth is an approach to disease management, which may hold the potential of improving some of the features associated with COPD, including positive impact on disease progression, and thus possibly limiting further reduction in quality of life (QoL). Our objective was, therefore, to summarize studies addressing the impact of telehealth on QoL in patients with COPD.

designSystematic review.

methodsA series of systematic searches were carried out using the following databases: PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, and ClinicalTrials.gov (last updated November 2015). A predefined search algorithm was utilized with the intention to capture all results related to COPD, QoL, and telehealth published since year 2000. OUTCOME MEASURES: Primary outcome was QoL, assessed by validated measures.

resultsOut of the 18 studies fulfilling the criteria for inclusion in this review, three studies found statistically significant improvements in QoL for patients allocated to telemedical interventions. However, all of the other included studies found no statistically significant differences between control and telemedical intervention groups in terms of QoL.

conclusionTelehealth does not make a strong case for itself when exclusively looking at QoL as an outcome, since statistically significant improvements relative to control groups have been observed only in few of the available studies. Nonetheless, this does not only rule out the possibility that telehealth is superior to standard care with regard to other outcomes but also seems to call for more research, not least in large-scale controlled trials.

Indexed as

Quality of LifeTelemedicineHumansPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveCOPDquality of lifereviewtelehealth caretelemedicine

Identifiers

PMID27143872
PMCPMC4846042
OpenAlexW2338711686

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.