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| Title |
Telemedicine in pre-hospital care: a review of telemedicine applications in the pre-hospital environment
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| Published in |
International Journal of Emergency Medicine, July 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12245-014-0029-0 |
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| Authors |
Ahjoku Amadi-Obi, Peadar Gilligan, Niall Owens, Cathal O’Donnell |
| Abstract |
The right person in the right place and at the right time is not always possible; telemedicine offers the potential to give audio and visual access to the appropriate clinician for patients. Advances in information and communication technology (ICT) in the area of video-to-video communication have led to growth in telemedicine applications in recent years. For these advances to be properly integrated into healthcare delivery, a regulatory framework, supported by definitive high-quality research, should be developed. Telemedicine is well suited to extending the reach of specialist services particularly in the pre-hospital care of acute emergencies where treatment delays may affect clinical outcome. The exponential growth in research and development in telemedicine has led to improvements in clinical outcomes in emergency medical care. This review is part of the LiveCity project to examine the history and existing applications of telemedicine in the pre-hospital environment. A search of electronic databases including Medline, Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE), Cochrane, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) for relevant papers was performed. All studies addressing the use of telemedicine in emergency medical or pre-hospital care setting were included. Out of a total of 1,279 articles reviewed, 39 met the inclusion criteria and were critically analysed. A majority of the studies were on stroke management. The studies suggested that overall, telemedicine had a positive impact on emergency medical care. It improved the pre-hospital diagnosis of stroke and myocardial infarction and enhanced the supervision of delivery of tissue thromboplasminogen activator in acute ischaemic stroke. Telemedicine presents an opportunity to enhance patient management. There are as yet few definitive studies that have demonstrated whether it had an effect on clinical outcome. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 30 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 6 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 13% |
| United States | 3 | 10% |
| Canada | 2 | 7% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 3% |
| Chile | 1 | 3% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 10 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 21 | 70% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 17% |
| Scientists | 3 | 10% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 279 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 274 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 57 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 28 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 9% |
| Researcher | 25 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 15 | 5% |
| Other | 52 | 19% |
| Unknown | 76 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 62 | 22% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 47 | 17% |
| Computer Science | 29 | 10% |
| Engineering | 12 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 3% |
| Other | 38 | 14% |
| Unknown | 82 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 October 2015.
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