ArticleDigital health
Smartphones and telemedicine for older people in China: Opportunities and challenges.
Article in Digital health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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.
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
9 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association Between Intergenerational Support, Technology Perception and Trust, and Intention to Seek Medical Care on the Internet Among Chinese Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- The Association Between Smartphone Use and Risk of Hypertension in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.International journal of general medicine · 2025Article
- Construction and quantitative evaluation of China's smart older adults care policy: a PMC-index model approach.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Challenges of using telemedicine for patients with diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review.Journal of clinical & translational endocrinology · 2024Article
- Media Use Behavior Mediates the Association Between Family Health and Intention to Use Mobile Health Devices Among Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Does internet use promote the health of empty-nest older adults in rural China? The mediating role of social participation using a propensity score matching approach.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Protocol of a parallel, randomized controlled trial on the effects of a novel personalized nutrition approach by artificial intelligence in real world scenario.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The development of 5G technology has brought major advances and diverse challenges in healthcare services for older people, and access to equitable telemedicine is a high priority. Smartphones are most commonly used device to access the internet and bring the convenience of telemedicine to the user's fingertips. In the period where aging and informatization coexist in China, the role of smartphones in their daily lives, long-term care, and future opportunities and challenges needs serious reconsideration. We provide the latest evidence of smartphone use among the older adults of China and expound on issues about fairness in accessing mobile health, the substantial digital divide, and potential drawbacks of problematic smartphone use.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.