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ReviewNPJ digital medicine2023

Barriers and facilitators to utilizing digital health technologies by healthcare professionals.

Israel Júnior Borges do Nascimento, Hebatullah Abdulazeem, Lenny Thinagaran Vasanthan, Edson Zangiacomi Martinez, Miriane Lucindo Zucoloto, Lasse Østengaard, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Tomas Zapata, David Novillo-Ortiz

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Review in NPJ digital medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 367 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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367citing papers in PubMed, 9 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

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

367 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Digital Removable Denture Workflows in Dental Education: A Systematic Review and Curriculum Development Exploration.European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe · 2026
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  19. Supporting Decision Making in Early Years Initiatives: Co-Designing a Child Health Evidence Dashboard.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2026
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307 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Israel Júnior Borges do NascimentoDivision of Country Health Policies and Systems (CPS), World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark.
Hebatullah AbdulazeemDepartment of Sport and Health Science, Techanische Universität München, Munich, 80333, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4529-7114
Lenny Thinagaran VasanthanPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632004, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1776-6304
Edson Zangiacomi MartinezDepartment of Social Medicine and Biostatistics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, 14049-900, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0949-3222
Miriane Lucindo ZucolotoDepartment of Social Medicine and Biostatistics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, 14049-900, Brazil.
Lasse ØstengaardCentre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense (CEBMO) and Cochrane Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University Library of Southern Denmark, Odense, 5230, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7033-3722
Natasha Azzopardi-MuscatDivision of Country Health Policies and Systems (CPS), World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark.
Tomas ZapataDivision of Country Health Policies and Systems (CPS), World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7807-3520
David Novillo-OrtizDivision of Country Health Policies and Systems (CPS), World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark. dnovillo@who.int.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9756-0984

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Digital technologies change the healthcare environment, with several studies suggesting barriers and facilitators to using digital interventions by healthcare professionals (HPs). We consolidated the evidence from existing systematic reviews mentioning barriers and facilitators for the use of digital health technologies by HP. Electronic searches were performed in five databases (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Embase

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PMID37723240
PMCPMC10507089

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