ArticleJournal of patient experience2021
Are Surgical Patients Satisfied With Remote Consultations? A Comparison of Remote Versus Conventional Outpatient Clinic Follow-Up for Surgical Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Article in Journal of patient experience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Accuracy of the Wound Healing Questionnaire in the diagnosis of surgical-site infection after abdominal surgery in low- and middle-income countries.The British journal of surgery · 2024Trial
- Economic and Environmental Impact of Digital Health App Video Consultations in Follow-up Care for Patients in Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery in Germany: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- Telemedicine versus face-to-face follow up in general surgery: a randomized controlled trial.ANZ journal of surgery · 2022Trial
- An international multidisciplinary consensus statement on laparoscopic liver biopsy.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Improving Patient Experience by Understanding Barriers and Incentives to Telehealth Adoption Among Physicians at a Large Academic Medical Center.Journal of patient experience · 2025Article
- How Informal Carers Support Video Consulting in Physiotherapy, Heart Failure, and Cancer: Qualitative Study Using Linguistic Ethnography.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Digital postoperative follow-up after colorectal resection: a multi-center preliminary qualitative study on a patient reporting and monitoring application.Updates in surgery · 2024Article
- Patient Experience from an eHealth Perspective: A Scoping Review of Approaches and Recent Trends.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Access to remote appointments (RA) by telephone or video is increasing as technology advances and becomes more available to patients. This meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) aims to discover whether surgical patients are satisfied with RAs when compared with conventional outpatient clinics (OPC). A literature search of RCTs of surgical patient satisfaction of RAs versus OPC appointments was performed. The PubMed, EMBASE, OVID, Cochrane Library, and Google Scholar databases were searched to include articles from January 2000 to 2020. A random-effects meta-analysis model was used to compare outcomes. All 7 RCTs showed that patients were as satisfied with RAs as OPC appointments (RR = 1.00, [0.98-1.02];
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