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ReviewFrontiers in public health2022

Telemedicine Is Becoming an Increasingly Popular Way to Resolve the Unequal Distribution of Healthcare Resources: Evidence From China.

Jinghong Gao, Chaolin Fan, Baozhan Chen, Zhaohan Fan, Lifeng Li, Linlin Wang, Qianqian Ma, Xianying He, Yunkai Zhai, Jie Zhao

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Jinghong GaoThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Chaolin FanThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Baozhan ChenThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Zhaohan FanThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Lifeng LiThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Linlin WangThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Qianqian MaThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Xianying HeThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Yunkai ZhaiNational Engineering Laboratory for Internet Medical Systems and Applications, Zhengzhou, China.
Jie ZhaoThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Few studies focused on the general situation of telemedicine in China. Objectives: The purpose of this review is to investigate telemedicine in China, from the aspects of necessity, history, scale, and operation procedure, to improve the further development and implementation of telemedicine service. Methods: A literature search for peer-reviewed studies was conducted using the primary electronic databases. Additional documents from the official websites of Chinese government departments involved telemedicine was also collected. We extracted telemedicine related information focused on China from the final retrieved materials, and the general situation of telemedicine was drawn. Results: In China, telemedicine offers a feasible solution to the unequal allocation of healthcare resources, which makes telemedicine increasingly become an important alternative to close the gap between rural and urban in the capability and quality of medical services. China initiated telemedicine in the late 1980s. In 2018, China's telemedicine network has covered more than 3,000 hospitals across the country. As of 2019, almost all of the 31 provinces and municipalities in mainland have established regional telemedicine centers, and the market size of telemedicine reached about USD 2.68 billion. Based on the telemedicine network, remote rural patients can apply for healthcare services of top-tier urban hospitals through local county-level medical institutions. Conclusions: Through improving the capacity, quality, and efficiency of healthcare in underserved areas, and reducing the unequal distribution of medical resources, telemedicine can help solve the problems of the difficulty and high cost to access to medical services in China.

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TelemedicineChinaDelivery of Health CareHospitalsHumansdevelopment historynecessityoperation procedurescaletelemedicine

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PMID35874991
PMCPMC9301261

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