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ArticlePediatrics2021

Telehealth: Improving Access to and Quality of Pediatric Health Care.

Alison L Curfman, Jesse M Hackell, Neil E Herendeen, Joshua J Alexander, James P Marcin, William B Moskowitz, Chelsea E F Bodnar, Harold K Simon, S David McSwain, SECTION ON TELEHEALTH CARE, COMMITTEE ON PRACTICE AND AMBULATORY MEDICINE, COMMITTEE ON PEDIATRIC WORKFORCE

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Article in Pediatrics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
17.2field-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

54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 119 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

10 authors at 9 institutions in 1 country.

Alison L CurfmanDepartment of Pediatrics, Mercy Clinic, St Louis Missouri alison.curfman@mercy.net.
Jesse M HackellDepartment of Pediatrics, New York Medical College and Boston Children's Health Physicians, Pomona, New York.
Neil E HerendeenDepartment of Pediatrics, Golisano Children's Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York.
Joshua J AlexanderDepartments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
James P MarcinDivision of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis and University of California Davis Children's Hospital, Sacramento, California.
William B MoskowitzDivision of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's of Mississippi and University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
Chelsea E F BodnarRobert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.
Harold K SimonDepartments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia.
S David McSwain
SECTION ON TELEHEALTH CARE, COMMITTEE ON PRACTICE AND AMBULATORY MEDICINE, COMMITTEE ON PEDIATRIC WORKFORCE
Boston Children's Health Physicians · USChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta · USMedical University of South Carolina · USMercy Clinic Neurology · USUniversity of California, Davis · USUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center · USUniversity of Montana · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of Rochester Medical Center · US

Funding

SPROUT-CTSA Collaborative Telehealth Research NetworkU01TR002626 · NCATS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI CHUO, JOHN, MCSWAIN, STEVEN D · 2019 to 2023
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NCATS NIH HHS U01 TR002626
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

All children and adolescents deserve access to quality health care regardless of their race/ethnicity, health conditions, financial resources, or geographic location. Despite improvements over the past decades, severe disparities in the availability and access to high-quality health care for children and adolescents continue to exist throughout the United States. Economic and racial factors, geographic maldistribution of primary care pediatricians, and limited availability of pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists all contribute to inequitable access to pediatric care. Robust, comprehensive telehealth coverage is critical to improving pediatric access and quality of care and services, particularly for under-resourced populations.

Indexed as

Health Services AccessibilityQuality of Health CareTelemedicineAdolescentChildChild Health ServicesEthnicityHumansPediatriciansRace FactorsSpecializationUnited States

Identifiers

PMID34462339
PMCPMC9633975
OpenAlexW3198223216

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