SynthesisPerspectives in health information managemen2016
Effect of Telehealth Interventions on Hospitalization Indicators: A Systematic Review.
Synthesis in Perspectives in health information managemen, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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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.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interactive Remote Patient Monitoring Devices for Managing Chronic Health Conditions: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Clinical and economic effectiveness of telehealth in home mechanical ventilation.ERJ open research · 2026Article
- Health care utilization in Alaska Native people receiving chronic disease specialty care by videoconsultation compared to propensity-matched controls.Journal of telemedicine and telecare · 2024Observational
- Evaluating a Telephone and Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Intervention to Improve Blood Pressure Control and Self-Care Behaviors in Adults with Low-Socioeconomic Status.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Contacts in general practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: a register-based study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2022Article
- Telehealth Adoption and Discontinuation by US Hospitals: Results From 2 Quasi-Natural Experiments.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Telehealth in Primary Health Care: A Scoping Review of the Literature.Perspectives in health information managemen · 2022Article
- Economic Aspects of Delivering Primary Care Services: An Evidence Synthesis to Inform Policy and Research Priorities.The Milbank quarterly · 2021Article
- Telehealth consultations in general practice during a pandemic lockdown: survey and interviews on patient experiences and preferences.BMC family practice · 2020Article
- Regional Heterogeneity of Application and Effect of Telemedicine in the Primary Care Centres in Rural China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundTelehealth has been defined as the remote delivery of healthcare services using information and communication technology. Where resource-limited health systems face challenges caused by the increasing burden of chronic diseases and an aging global population, telehealth has been advocated as a solution for changing and improving the paradigm of healthcare delivery to cope with these issues. The aim of this systematic review is to investigate the effect of telehealth interventions on two indicators: hospitalization rate and length of stay. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe reviewers searched the PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Springer electronic databases from January 2005 to November 2013. A search strategy was developed using a combination of the following search keywords:
resultsThis systematic review examined 22 existing studies with a total population of 19,086 patients. The effect of telehealth on all-cause hospitalization was statistically significant in 40 percent of the related studies, whereas it was not statistically significant in 60 percent. Similarly, the effect of telehealth on the all-cause length of stay was statistically significant in 36 percent of the studies and nonsignificant in 64 percent.
conclusionConsidering the fact that hospitalization rate and length of stay can be confounded by factors other than telehealth intervention, studies examining the effect of the intervention on these indicators must take into account all other factors influencing them. Otherwise any judgment on the effect of telehealth on these indicators cannot be valid.
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