ReviewERJ open research2022
Telemedicine and virtual respiratory care in the era of COVID-19.
Review in ERJ open research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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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.
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Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of Digital Health on Patient-Provider Relationships in Respiratory Secondary Care Based on Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness and Acceptability of Asynchronous Digital Health in Asthma Care: Mixed Methods Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- The development of evaluation scale of the patient satisfaction with telemedicine: a systematic review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2024Pooled it
- Virtual consultations for patients with obstructive sleep apnoea: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2022Pooled it
- A qualitative study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare access and service delivery for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2026Article
- Implementing Digital Respiratory Technologies for People With Respiratory Conditions: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Telemedicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology: A Scoping Review of Enhancing Access and Outcomes in Modern Healthcare.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of mailed versus in-person PAP initiation in the Veterans Affairs' TeleSleep program.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Article
- Delivering remote pulmonary rehabilitation in Bangladesh: a mixed-method feasibility study.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Digital health technologies for improving the management of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Review
- Course of neuropsychological health in post-COVID patients differs 6 and 12 months after inpatient rehabilitation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Digital health delivery in respiratory medicine: adjunct, replacement or cause for division?European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2024Review
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- Implementing digital respiratory technologies for people with respiratory conditions: A protocol for a scoping review.PloS one · 2024Article
- Implementing psychological interventions delivered by respiratory professionals for people with COPD. A stakeholder interview study.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2023Article
- A self-management app to improve asthma control in adults with limited health literacy: a mixed-method feasibility study.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2023Article
- "It's like a forgotten issue sometimes …": Qualitative study of individuals living and caring for people with chronic breathlessness.The clinical respiratory journal · 2023Article
- Investigating the accuracy of blood oxygen saturation measurements in common consumer smartwatches.PLOS digital health · 2023Article
- Remote consultations in primary care across low-, middle- and high-income countries: Implications for policy and care delivery.Journal of health services research & policy · 2023Article
- Multidisciplinary approaches to identifying and managing global airways disease: Expert recommendations based on qualitative discussions.Frontiers in allergy · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The World Health Organization defines telemedicine as "an interaction between a healthcare provider and a patient when the two are separated by distance". The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has forced a dramatic shift to telephone and video consulting for follow-up and routine ambulatory care for reasons of infection control. Short message service ("text") messaging has proved a useful adjunct to remote consulting, allowing the transfer of photographs and documents. Maintaining the care of noncommunicable diseases is a core component of pandemic preparedness and telemedicine has developed to enable (for example) remote monitoring of sleep apnoea, telemonitoring of COPD, digital support for asthma self-management and remote delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation. There are multiple exemplars of telehealth instigated rapidly to provide care for people with COVID-19, to manage the spread of the pandemic or to maintain safe routine diagnostic or treatment services. Despite many positive examples of equivalent functionality and safety, there remain questions about the impact of remote delivery of care on rapport and the longer term impact on patient/professional relationships. Although telehealth has the potential to contribute to universal health coverage by providing cost-effective accessible care, there is a risk of increasing social health inequalities if the "digital divide" excludes those most in need of care. As we emerge from the pandemic, the balance of remote
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