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ReviewBlockchain in healthcare today2025

Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Metaverse-Enabled Healthcare.

Kristin M Kostick-Quenet, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh

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Review in Blockchain in healthcare today, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Kristin M Kostick-QuenetAssistant Professor, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2510-0174
Vasiliki RahimzadehAssistant Professor, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3537-7601

Funding

Optimized Affective Computing Measures of Social Processes and Negative Valence in Youth PsychopathologyR01MH125958 · NIMH · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI HERRINGTON, JOHN DAVID, STORCH, ERIC A. · 2021 to 2025
$4.5M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH125958
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metaverse is heralded by some as the next iteration of the internet. It offers three-dimensional, immersive virtual spaces, where users, represented as avatars, can synchronously work, play, interact, and transact. Initially developed within the realm of massive multiplayer online role-playing games, the metaverse now extends into sectors such as music, entertainment, retail, real estate, and, more recently, healthcare. Users engage in the metaverse using augmented reality or virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets that interoperate with other sensory devices to integrate biofeedback and multimodal data streams.

Indexed as

Immersive virtual spacesmetaverserole-playing gamessocial implicationsvirtual spaces

Identifiers

PMID41877695
PMCPMC12994886

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Registered trials

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