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ArticleTelemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association2022

Pandemic Action Plan Policy and Regulatory Summary Telehealth Policy and Regulatory Considerations During a Pandemic.

Mark VanderWerf, Jordana Bernard, Doris T Barta, Jordan Berg, Tim Collins, Mike Dowdy, Kenneth Feiler, Douglas L Moore, Costi Sifri, Garret Spargo and 3 more

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Article in Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

13 authors at 11 institutions in 1 country.

Mark VanderWerfWorcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Jordana BernardNorth Potomac, Maryland, USA.
Doris T BartaNational Telehealth Technology Assessment Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
Jordan BergNational Telehealth Technology Assessment Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
Tim CollinsAlaska Native Epidemiology Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
Mike DowdyLewistown, Montana, USA.
Kenneth FeilerVelocity Healthcare Consultants, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Douglas L MooreMeridian, Idaho, USA.
Costi SifriUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Garret SpargoAlaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
Carl W TaylorFort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
Cara B TowleUniversity of Washington, Seattle Washington, USA.
Kathy Hsu WibberlyMid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
eHealth Initiative · USAlaska Native Medical Center · USAlaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · USAmerican College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists · USGeisinger Lewistown Hospital · USMid-Atlantic University Transportation Center · USUniversity of Fort Lauderdale · USUniversity of the Potomac · USUniversity of Virginia · USUniversity of Washington · USVelocity Clinical Research (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reports, studies, and surveys have demonstrated telehealth provides opportunities to make health care more efficient, better coordinated, convenient, and affordable. Telehealth can also help address health income and access disparities in underserved communities by removing location and transportation barriers, unproductive time away from work, childcare expenses, and so on. Despite evidence showing high-quality outcomes, satisfaction, and success rates (e.g., 95% patient satisfaction rate and 84% success rate in which patients were able to completely resolve their medical concerns during a telehealth visit), nationwide adoption of telehealth has been quite low due to policy and regulatory barriers, constraints, and complexities.

Indexed as

COVID-19TelemedicineHumansPandemicsPatient SatisfactionPolicySARS-CoV-2pandemicpolicyregulatorytelemedicine

Identifiers

PMID34265216
PMCPMC9058868
OpenAlexW3181594628

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