SynthesisJournal of medical Internet research2022
Role of Telemedicine in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Synthesis in Journal of medical Internet research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06971627 (The Effect of Telehealth Monitoring on Medication Compliance, Self-Efficacy and Quality of Life in Patients With İnflammatory Bowel Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 34 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Effect of Telehealth Monitoring on Medication Compliance, Self-Efficacy and Quality of Life in Patients With İnflammatory Bowel Disease
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- The impact of COVID-19 on inflammatory bowel disease surgery: a systematic review.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2026Pooled it
- Telemonitoring in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Psychological interventions for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- A pilot randomized controlled trial of the self-management assistance for recommended treatment inflammatory bowel disease app for adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2026Trial
- Informing Modern Models of Care: A Randomized, Sequential Trial of In-Person, Telehealth, and Telephone Appointments for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2025Trial
- Telemonitoring in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Findings from the TIGE-Rus Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Virtual Multidisciplinary Gastrointestinal Care for Adults With Gastrointestinal Needs: Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Determinants of Telemedicine Satisfaction in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients: A Multi-Centre Cross-Sectional Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- A Review of the Use of Mobile Health Interventions in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Review
- The impact of patient-facing digital health interventions on patient safety outcomes: a meta-analysis of meta-analyses.Oxford open digital health · 2026Review
- Applying the behavior change wheel to ulcerative colitis self-management: a conceptual closed-loop behavioral support framework.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Successful Collection of Patient-Reported Outcomes Shows Improvement in Quality of Life, Depression, and Disease Activity among Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Real-World Study.Crohn's & colitis 360 · 2025Article
- Enhancing Patient Support in Digital Inflammatory Bowel Disease Tools: The Need for Medication Guidance and Decision Support.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Low-Tech Telemedicine Reduces Caregiver Burden and Improves Outcomes in Older Adults with Chronic Diseases: Results from a Prospective Study in Romania.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Lessons learned: telehealth for patients with eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases.Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus · 2025Article
- Application of Internet Hospitals in the Disease Management of Patients With Ulcerative Colitis: Retrospective Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Clinical benefits and risks of remote patient monitoring: an overview and assessment of methodological rigour of systematic reviews for selected patient groups.BMC health services research · 2025Review
- Nutritional psychology and inflammatory bowel disease: a narrative review of gut-brain axis interactions.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of Telemedicine in Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Russia: TIGE-Rus (Telemonitoring for IBD Goodness Examination in Russia) Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- High refill-adherence to adalimumab is associated with low disease activity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2024Article
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13 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundTelemedicine plays an important role in the management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly during a pandemic such as COVID-19. However, the effectiveness and efficiency of telemedicine in managing IBD are unclear.
objectiveThis systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to compare the impact of telemedicine with that of standard care on the management of IBD.
methodsWe systematically searched the PubMed, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Scopus databases on April 22, 2020. Randomized controlled trials comparing telemedicine with standard care in patients with IBD were included, while conference abstracts, letters, reviews, laboratory studies, and case reports were excluded. The IBD-specific quality of life (QoL), disease activity, and remission rate in patients with IBD were assessed as primary outcomes, and the number of in-person clinic visits per patient, patient satisfaction, psychological outcome, and medication adherence were assessed as secondary outcomes. Review Manage 5.3 and Stata 15.1 were used for data analysis.
resultsA total of 17 randomized controlled trials (2571 participants) were included in this meta-analysis. The telemedicine group had higher IBD-specific QoL than the standard care group (standard mean difference 0.18, 95% CI 0.01 to 0.34; P.03). The number of clinic visits per patient in the telemedicine group was significantly lower than that in the standard care group (standard mean difference -0.71, 95% CI -1.07 to -0.36; P<.001). Subgroup analysis showed that adolescents in the telemedicine group had significantly higher IBD-specific QoL than those in the standard care group (standard mean difference 0.42, 95% CI 0.15 to 0.69; I2=0; P.002), but there was no significant difference between adults in the 2 groups. There were no significant differences in disease activity, remission rate, patient satisfaction, depression, self-efficacy, generic QoL, and medication adherence outcomes between the telemedicine and standard care groups.
conclusionsTelemedicine intervention showed a promising role in improving IBD-specific QoL among adolescents and decreased the number of clinic visits among patients with IBD. Further research is warranted to identify the group of patients with IBD who would most benefit from telemedicine.
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