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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Remote Monitoring Empowerment of Patients with IBDs during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic.

Mauro Mastronardi, Margherita Curlo, Maurizio Polignano, Natalino Vena, Daniela Rossi, Gianluigi Giannelli

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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

  1. Remote care through telehealth for people with inflammatory bowel disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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  6. Telemedicine in routine gastroenterology practice: A boost during the COVID-19 pandemic.JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mauro MastronardiNational Institute of Gastroenterology, "Saverio de Bellis" Research Hospital, 70013 Castellana Grotte, Italy.
Margherita CurloNational Institute of Gastroenterology, "Saverio de Bellis" Research Hospital, 70013 Castellana Grotte, Italy.
Maurizio PolignanoNational Institute of Gastroenterology, "Saverio de Bellis" Research Hospital, 70013 Castellana Grotte, Italy.
Natalino VenaNational Institute of Gastroenterology, "Saverio de Bellis" Research Hospital, 70013 Castellana Grotte, Italy.
Daniela RossiNational Institute of Gastroenterology, "Saverio de Bellis" Research Hospital, 70013 Castellana Grotte, Italy.
Gianluigi GiannelliNational Institute of Gastroenterology, "Saverio de Bellis" Research Hospital, 70013 Castellana Grotte, Italy.
Gastroenterology Hospital "Saverio de Bellis" · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Once the WHO declared the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic, the world had to reprogram numerous clinical activities, particularly those related to highly disabling diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). In this study, 1083 IBD patients were assessed, affected by Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), and subdivided into two groups. The first group included patients who needed treatment in person at the outpatients clinic, while the second group could be tele-monitored because they were able to self-administer therapy. The tele-monitoring was based on telecommunication applications via smartphone, driven by a dedicated clinical control room in the IBD Clinic. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of life (using IBDQ32) of UC patients and tele-monitored CD patients (tele-monitoring group) as compared to those patients who underwent assessment in person in the outpatients clinic (control group). Despite observing a lower number of relapses in the control group than the tele-monitoring group, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in terms of the IBD32Q scores. Tele-monitoring of patients who are able to self-administer the IBD therapy can be an effective vicarious system as compared to the clinical evaluation in person, that could lead to important changes to avoid the overcrowding of the IBD outpatients clinic, especially during public health crises like the present pandemic.

Indexed as

Crohn’s Disease (CD)inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)smart phonetele-monitoringUlcerative Colitis (UC)

Identifiers

PMID33019563
PMCPMC7711761
OpenAlexW3090428940

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