SynthesisBMC nephrology2025
Effectiveness of telehealth interventions for palliative care in patients with kidney failure: a systematic review.
Synthesis in BMC nephrology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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
2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Nurse-led tele-palliative care for symptom management and family support: A hybrid umbrella review of reviews and primary studies.Palliative & supportive care · 2026Pooled it
- Telemonitoring post-renal transplantation and role of advanced practice nurses: a single center experience.Frontiers in nephrology · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundKidney failure affects a substantial proportion of the global population, and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. These patients require high-quality palliative care to manage symptoms and enhance quality of life. With advances in technology, telehealth offers potentially convenient and scalable means to provide this integral aspect of care. This systematic review assessed the effectiveness of telehealth interventions for providing palliative care in patients with kidney failure.
methodsA comprehensive search of PubMed (32), Cochrane (1), Google Scholar (938) and HINARI (25) yielded 1039 articles. Following the removal of duplicates, 1013 articles remained. Screening questions were developed in relation to the use of telehealth-based interventions among patients with kidney failure for palliative care. Studies on patients with stages 1-4 of chronic kidney disease, telehealth interventions related to improving renal replacement therapy, interventions focused on optimization of medical complications or drug adherence and caregiver-directed interventions were excluded. Articles were screened by two independent reviewers, with conflicts settled by a third. Risk of bias was assessed using the RoB2 tool for randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Meta-analysis was not performed following heterogeneity assessments. Registration was done in PROSPERO registry with the ID CRD42024582255.
resultsFour RCTs were included in the final review. Two had low risk of bias while the other two had moderate risk. Three of the interventions were nurse-led telehealth interventions that focused on post-discharge follow up with outcomes related to quality of life and symptom control. The other focused on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) delivered via telehealth. All post-discharge follow-up telehealth interventions showed significant improvements in symptom control and quality of life. The CBT intervention also demonstrated significant improvement in symptom control.
conclusionsTelehealth interventions for provision of palliative care in patients with kidney failure seem promising for improvement of symptom control and quality of life.
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.