ArticleTherapeutic advances in chronic disease2020
The effects of telemedicine on the quality of life of patients with lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Article in Therapeutic advances in chronic disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05628246 (Telemedicine Versus In-Person Follow-up for Cancer Pain Management), which is not on this map. Cited by 25 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Telemedicine Versus In-Person Follow-up for Cancer Pain Management: An Equity and Cost Analysis Comparison Using a Prospective Quasi-Experimental Design
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Telemedicine to Support Heart Failure Patients during Social Distancing: A Systematic Review.Global heart · 2022Pooled it
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- Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Expanding Telehealth Use for Older Adults Across the Cancer Control Continuum: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR cancer · 2026Article
- System-Level Transformations to Increase Patient Participation in Clinical Trials.JCO oncology practice · 2025Article
- Insights from a Patient-Centered Lung Cancer Navigation Program in a Low-Resource Community.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Article
- A Framework for Integrating Telehealth Equitably across the cancer care continuum.Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs · 2024Article
- University of Pennsylvania Telehealth Research Center of Excellence.Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs · 2024Article
- Telemedicine and Resource Utilization in Pulmonary Clinic.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Article
- Perceptions of adult patients with cancer towards telemedicine: A qualitative meta-synthesis.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2024Review
- Telemedicine Clinics in General and Colorectal Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Patient-Reported Outcomes.Cureus · 2024Article
- Sociodemographic Inequities in Telemedicine Use Among US Patients Initiating Treatment in Community Cancer Centers During the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2022.JCO oncology practice · 2023Article
- Digital health and telehealth in cancer care: a scoping review of reviews.The Lancet. Digital health · 2023Article
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- Distance Monitoring of Advanced Cancer Patients with Impaired Cardiac and Respiratory Function Assisted at Home: A Study Protocol in Italy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- The state of the art in telerehabilitation for musculoskeletal conditions.Archives of physiotherapy · 2023Article
- Telerehabilitation as a Form of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Chronic Lung Disease: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Telerehabilitation programmes for patients with cancer and survivors: a protocol for a systematic review.BMJ open · 2022Article
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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsLung cancer patients suffer from deterioration in their physical and psychological function, which exerts a negative influence on their quality of life (QOL). Telemedicine has been proven to be an effective intervention for patients with several chronic diseases. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to investigate the efficacy of telemedicine in improving QOL in lung cancer patients.
methodsPubMed, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Web of Science and Scopus databases were searched for randomized controlled trials that investigated the effectiveness of telemedicine in lung cancer patients. Review Manager 5.3 and Stata 15.1 were used to perform data analysis.
resultsOur meta-analysis included eight clinical trials with a total of 635 lung cancer patients. The results showed that the telemedicine group had significantly higher QOL than the usual care group [standard mean difference (SMD) 0.96, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.29-1.63,
conclusionTelemedicine may be an effective method of improving QOL in lung cancer patients and the further development and use of telemedicine care is recommended.
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