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ArticlePloS one2022

Use of telehealth in the provision of after-hours palliative care services in rural and remote Australia: A scoping review protocol.

Pathmavathy Namasivayam, Dung T Bui, Christine Low, Tony Barnett, Heather Bridgman, Pauline Marsh, Simone Lee

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Article in PloS one, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pathmavathy NamasivayamSchool of Nursing, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0761-223X
Dung T BuiCentre for Rural Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Newnham, Tasmania, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9907-8240
Christine LowCentre for Rural Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Newnham, Tasmania, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4247-6467
Tony BarnettCentre for Rural Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Newnham, Tasmania, Australia.
Heather BridgmanCentre for Rural Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Newnham, Tasmania, Australia.
Pauline MarshCentre for Rural Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Newnham, Tasmania, Australia.
Simone LeeCentre for Rural Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Newnham, Tasmania, Australia.
University of Tasmania · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionAfter-hours services are essential in ensuring patients with life limiting illness and their caregivers are supported to enable continuity of care. Telehealth is a valuable approach to meeting after-hours support needs of people living with life-limiting illness, their families, and caregivers in rural and remote communities. It is important to explore the provision of after-hours palliative care services using telehealth to understand the reach of these services in rural and remote Australia. A preliminary search of databases failed to reveal any scoping or systematic reviews of telehealth in after-hours palliative care services in rural or remote Australia.

aimTo review and map the available evidence about the use of telehealth in providing after-hours palliative care services in Australian rural and remote communities.

methodsThe proposed scoping review will be conducted using the Arksey and O'Malley methodological framework and in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews. The reporting of the scoping review will be guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). This review will consider research and evaluation of after-hours services using telehealth for palliative care stakeholders in rural and remote Australia. Peer reviewed studies and grey literature published in English from 2000 to May 2021 will be included. Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL Complete, Embase via Ovid, PsycINFO via Ovid, Emcare via Ovid, Medline via Ovid, and grey literature will be searched for relevant articles. Titles and abstracts will be screened by two independent reviewers for assessment against the inclusion criteria. Data will be extracted and analysed by two reviewers using an adapted data extraction tool and thematic analysis techniques. Diagrams, tables, and summary narratives will be used to map, summarise and thematically group the characteristics of palliative care telehealth services in rural and remote Australia, including stakeholders' perceptions and benefits and challenges of the services.

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AustraliaDelivery of Health CareHumansPalliative CarePopulation GroupsPrimary Health CareRural Health ServicesRural PopulationScoping Reviews as TopicTelemedicine

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PMID35025895
PMCPMC8758106
OpenAlexW4206467246

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