ReviewCJC open2022
Virtual Care With Digital Technologies for Rural Canadians Living With Cardiovascular Disease.
Review in CJC open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Patient-reported experiences and outcomes of virtual care during COVID-19: a systematic review.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2023Pooled it
- Virtual Care and Telehealth for Improving Healthcare Access in Rural Western Canada and the Western United States: A Scoping Review and Narrative Synthesis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Virtual transition education of rural adolescents with congenital heart disease: A pilot study.Health care transitions · 2026Article
- Implementing home-based digital health in rural Canada: a scoping review.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Review
- Design and Assessment of Flexible Capacitive Electrodes for Reusable ECG Monitoring: Effects of Sweat and Adapted Front-End Configuration.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Advancing health equity in Nova Scotia by exploring gaps in healthcare delivery: a mixed methods protocol.Research in health services & regions · 2025Article
- Motion artifacts in capacitive ECG monitoring systems: a review of existing models and reduction techniques.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2024Review
- The Impact of Digital Health Solutions on Bridging the Health Care Gap in Rural Areas: A Scoping Review.The Permanente journal · 2024Article
- Access to Specialized Care Across the Lifespan in Tetralogy of Fallot.CJC pediatric and congenital heart disease · 2023Review
- Family physicians' experiences with an innovative, community-based, hybrid model of in- person and virtual care: a mixed-methods study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Environmental effects of surgical procedures and strategies for sustainable surgery.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2023Review
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- Virtual monitoring in CF - the importance of continuous monitoring in a multi-organ chronic condition.Frontiers in digital health · 2023Review
- ehealth technology in cardiac exercise therapeutics for pediatric patients with congenital and acquired heart conditions: a summary of evidence and future directions.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Review
- Association of Virtual Care Expansion With Environmental Sustainability and Reduced Patient Costs During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Participation Among Rural Residents With Cardiovascular Disease in Brazil.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)Review
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- Why do family physicians stay in rural practice? National survey of Canadian primary care clinicians who have stayed or left.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadienArticle
- Implementation and impacts of virtual team-based care planning for older persons in formal care settings: A scoping review.Digital healthArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Canada is a wealthy nation with a geographically diverse population, seeking health innovations to better serve patients in accordance with the Canada Health Act. In this country, population and geography converge with social determinants, policy, procurement regulations, and technological advances with the goal to achieve equity in the management and distribution of health care. Rural and remote patients are a vulnerable population; when managing chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease, there is currently inequity to accessing specialist physicians at the recommended frequency-increasing the likelihood of poor health outcomes. Ensuring equitable care for this population is an unrealized priority of several provincial and federal government mandates. Virtual care technology might provide practical, economical, and innovative solutions to remedy this discrepancy. We conducted a scoping review of the literature pertaining to the use of virtual care technologies to monitor patients living in rural areas of Canada with cardiovascular disease. A search strategy was developed to identify the literature specific to this context across 3 bibliographic databases. Two hundred thirty-two unique citations were ultimately assessed for eligibility, of which 37 met the inclusion criteria. In our assessment of these articles, we provide a summary of the interventions studied, their reported effectiveness in reducing adverse events and mortality, the challenges to implementation, and the receptivity of these technologies among patients, providers, and policy-makers. Furthermore, we glean insight into the barriers and opportunities to ensure equitable care for rural patients and conclude that there is an ongoing need for clinical trials on virtual care technologies in this context.
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Registered trials
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