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ArticleFrontiers in digital health2021

Challenges and Pitfalls for Implementing Digital Health Solutions in Clinical Studies in Europe.

Marcel Meyerheim, Anna Burns-Gebhart, Kasra Mirzaie, Tina Garani-Papadatos, Yvonne Braun, Norbert Graf

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Article in Frontiers in digital health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Marcel MeyerheimClinic of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Saarland University Hospital and Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
Anna Burns-GebhartClinic for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Kasra MirzaieClinic for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Tina Garani-PapadatosDepartment of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Yvonne BraunClinic of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Saarland University Hospital and Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
Norbert GrafClinic of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Saarland University Hospital and Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increasing number of digital solutions developed for use in clinical health care settings is accompanied by new challenges to develop and conduct clinical studies that include eHealth technologies. Clinical study implementation plans often disregard or underestimate the necessity of additional administrative and logistic tasks required at clinical sites as well as ethical aspects to test digital solutions. Experiences made in the run-up of an observational clinical feasibility study at three international clinical sites in the framework of the MyPal project (https://mypal-project.eu/) result in recommendations to avoid delays and barriers in the planning of such prospective studies in clinical and also palliative care for increased efficiency.

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digital healthdigital health platformdigital technologye-healthhealth care

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PMID34713200
PMCPMC8521796

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