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ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2018

Review of Use of Asynchronous Technologies Incorporated in Mental Health Care.

Steven Chan, Luming Li, John Torous, David Gratzer, Peter M Yellowlees

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Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Steven ChanDivision of Hospital Medicine, Clinical Informatics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. steven.chan@ucsf.edu.
Luming LiDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
John TorousBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
David GratzerCentre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Peter M YellowleesDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.

Funding

Digital Phenotyping for Computational Models of Relapse Prediction in Early Course PsychosisK23MH116130 · NIMH · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI TOROUS, JOHN · 2018 to 2021
$872k
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewMental health clinicians should understand how technologies augment, enhance, and provide alternate means for the delivery of mental healthcare. These technologies can be used asynchronously, in which the patient and the clinician need not be communicating at the same time. This contrasts with synchronous technologies, in which patient and clinician must communicate at the same time. RECENT

findingsThe review is based on research literature and the authors' clinical and healthcare administration experiences. Asynchronous technologies can exist between a single clinician and a single patient, such as patient portal e-mail and messaging, in-app messaging, asynchronous telepsychiatry via store-and-forward video, and specialty patient-to-provider mobile apps. Asynchronous technologies have already been used in different countries with success, and can alleviate the psychiatric workforce shortage and improve barriers to access. Multiple studies referred to in this review demonstrate good retention and acceptability of asynchronous psychotherapy interventions by patients. Asynchronous technologies can alleviate access barriers, such as geographical, scheduling, administrative, and financial issues. It is important for clinicians to understand the efficacy, assess the ethics, and manage privacy and legal concerns that may arise from using asynchronous technologies.

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Mental HealthMobile ApplicationsHumansPsychiatryPsychotherapyTelemedicineAsynchronous telepsychiatryClinical informaticsMental health service deliveryMessaging and communication technologySmartphone appsTelemedicine

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PMID30155593

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