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ReviewHealth and technology2021

Telemedicine and e-Health research solutions in literature for combatting COVID-19: a systematic review.

Susel Góngora Alonso, Goncalo Marques, Isidro Barrachina, Begonya Garcia-Zapirain, Jon Arambarri, Javier Cabo Salvador, Isabel de la Torre Díez

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Review in Health and technology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
14.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Patient Engagement Using Telemedicine in Primary Care during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Trial Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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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

7 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Susel Góngora AlonsoDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications, and Telematics, Engineering University of Valladolid Paseo de Belén, 15, 47011 Valladolid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3500-4100
Goncalo MarquesInstituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal.
Isidro BarrachinaUniversity Hospital of Caceres, Caceres, Spain.
Begonya Garcia-ZapiraineVIDA Research Group, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.
Jon ArambarriEscuela Politécnica, Universidad Europea del Atlántico, Santander, Spain.
Javier Cabo SalvadorUniversidad a Distancia de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Isabel de la Torre DíezDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications, and Telematics, Engineering University of Valladolid Paseo de Belén, 15, 47011 Valladolid, Spain.
Universidad de Valladolid · ESComplejo Hospitalario de Cáceres · ESUniversidad a Distancia de Madrid · ESUniversidad de Deusto · ESUniversidad Europea del Atlántico · ESUniversity of Beira Interior · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 had led to severe clinical manifestations. In the current scenario, 98 794 942 people are infected, and it has responsible for 2 124 193 deaths around the world as reported by World Health Organization on 25 January 2021. Telemedicine has become a critical technology for providing medical care to patients by trying to reduce transmission of the virus among patients, families, and doctors. The economic consequences of coronavirus have affected the entire world and disrupted daily life in many countries. The development of telemedicine applications and eHealth services can significantly help to manage pandemic worldwide better. Consequently, the main objective of this paper is to present a systematic review of the implementation of telemedicine and e-health systems in the combat to COVID-19. The main contribution is to present a comprehensive description of the state of the art considering the domain areas, organizations, funding agencies, researcher units and authors involved. The results show that the United States and China have the most significant number of studies representing 42.11% and 31.58%, respectively. Furthermore, 35 different research units and 9 funding agencies are involved in the application of telemedicine systems to combat COVID-19.

Indexed as

COVID-19e-HealthLiteratureSystemsTelemedicine

Identifiers

PMID33558838
PMCPMC7857645
OpenAlexW3126178986

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