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The role of eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine for chronic disease patients during COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid systematic review
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the current status of, and the current expert opinions, recommendation and evidence associated with the use and implementation of electronic health (eHealth), telemedicine, and/or telehealth to provide healthcare services for chronic disease patients during the COVID-19 pande...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8060773/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33959378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076211009396 |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To summarize the current status of, and the current expert opinions, recommendation and evidence associated with the use and implementation of electronic health (eHealth), telemedicine, and/or telehealth to provide healthcare services for chronic disease patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We searched four electronic databases (PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, and Web of Science Core Collection) to identify relevant articles published between 2019 and 2020. Searches were restricted to English language articles only. Two independent reviewers screened the titles, abstracts, and keywords for relevance. The potential eligible articles, papers with no abstract, and those that fall into the uncertain category were read in full text independently. The reviewers met and discussed which articles to include in the final review and reached a consensus. RESULTS: We identified 51 articles of which 25 articles met the inclusion criteria. All included articles indicated the promising potential of eHealth, telehealth, and/or telemedicine solutions in delivering healthcare services to patients living with chronic diseases/conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. We synthesized the main findings into ten usages and eight recommendations concerning the different activities for delivering healthcare services remotely for those living with chronic diseases/conditions in the era of COVID-19. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: There is limited evidence available about the effectiveness of such solutions. Further research is required during this pandemic to improve the credibility of evidence on telemedicine, telehealth, and/or eHealth-related outcomes for those living with chronic diseases. |
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spelling | pubmed-80607732021-05-05 The role of eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine for chronic disease patients during COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid systematic review Bitar, Hind Alismail, Sarah Digit Health Special Collection on Covid-19 OBJECTIVE: To summarize the current status of, and the current expert opinions, recommendation and evidence associated with the use and implementation of electronic health (eHealth), telemedicine, and/or telehealth to provide healthcare services for chronic disease patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We searched four electronic databases (PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, and Web of Science Core Collection) to identify relevant articles published between 2019 and 2020. Searches were restricted to English language articles only. Two independent reviewers screened the titles, abstracts, and keywords for relevance. The potential eligible articles, papers with no abstract, and those that fall into the uncertain category were read in full text independently. The reviewers met and discussed which articles to include in the final review and reached a consensus. RESULTS: We identified 51 articles of which 25 articles met the inclusion criteria. All included articles indicated the promising potential of eHealth, telehealth, and/or telemedicine solutions in delivering healthcare services to patients living with chronic diseases/conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. We synthesized the main findings into ten usages and eight recommendations concerning the different activities for delivering healthcare services remotely for those living with chronic diseases/conditions in the era of COVID-19. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: There is limited evidence available about the effectiveness of such solutions. Further research is required during this pandemic to improve the credibility of evidence on telemedicine, telehealth, and/or eHealth-related outcomes for those living with chronic diseases. SAGE Publications 2021-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8060773/ /pubmed/33959378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076211009396 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Special Collection on Covid-19 Bitar, Hind Alismail, Sarah The role of eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine for chronic disease patients during COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid systematic review |
title | The role of eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine for chronic disease
patients during COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid systematic review |
title_full | The role of eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine for chronic disease
patients during COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid systematic review |
title_fullStr | The role of eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine for chronic disease
patients during COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine for chronic disease
patients during COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid systematic review |
title_short | The role of eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine for chronic disease
patients during COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid systematic review |
title_sort | role of ehealth, telehealth, and telemedicine for chronic disease
patients during covid-19 pandemic: a rapid systematic review |
topic | Special Collection on Covid-19 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8060773/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33959378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076211009396 |
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