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ArticleSystematic reviews2023

The era of technology in healthcare: an evaluation of telerehabilitation on patient outcomes-a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.

Sharan Jaswal, Joyce Lo, Gobika Sithamparanathan, Behdin Nowrouzi-Kia

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Article in Systematic reviews, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Telerehabilitation for Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis based on randomized controlled trials.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  5. Remotely Delivered Task-Oriented Training and Evaluation (reTOTE) for Stroke Rehabilitation.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sharan JaswalDepartment of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6736-3146
Joyce LoDepartment of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8609-2097
Gobika SithamparanathanDepartment of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4314-6782
Behdin Nowrouzi-KiaDepartment of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. behdin.nowrouzi.kia@utoronto.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-5586-4282

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe World Health Organization announced the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease as a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Since then, rapid implementation of telehealth approaches into the healthcare system have been evident. The pandemic has drastically impacted the lives of many around the globe and has detrimentally affected our healthcare systems, specifically with the delivery of healthcare. This has had many implications on rehabilitation services such as, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and speech therapy. The delivery of mental health services remotely may be referred to as teletherapy, telemental health, telepsychiatry, and telepsychology. Telerehabilitation has become a necessity over the course of the pandemic due to safety concerns with COVID-19 transmission. The primary aim of this systematic review protocol is to evaluate the literature on the effect of telerehabilitation on patient outcomes and propose directives for future research based on the evidence reviewed.

methodsA systematic review and meta-analysis will be conducted to examine the literature on the effect of telerehabilitation on patient outcomes following the Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines (PRISMA, 2015). The systematic review will use the following databases to examine the literature on telerehabilitation and patient outcomes: APA PsychINFO, Embase (Ovid), MEDLINE (Ovid), CINAHL, and Scopus. DISCUSSION: The utilization of telerehabilitation and similar telehealth treatments has increased throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. However, much is still unclear regarding the effectiveness of these methods in the delivery and service of healthcare, and their effect on health outcomes. This review will identify and address the knowledge gaps in the literature, which will provide further directions for future research.

trial registrationThis systematic review has been registered with PROSPERO under registration number CRD42022297849.

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COVID-19PsychiatryTelemedicineTelerehabilitationDelivery of Health CareHumansMeta-Analysis as TopicPandemicsSystematic Reviews as TopicTechnologyOccupational therapyPhysical therapyRemote healthcareSpeech therapyTelehealthTelerehabilitation

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PMCPMC10157558

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