Telehealth in Management of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

COVID-19 has created major health-related, economic, and social challenges in societies, and its high contagion has dramatically altered access to healthcare. COVID-19 management can be improved by the use of telehealth. This study aimed to examine different telehealth technologies in the management...

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Autores principales:	Farkhondeh Asadi, Sohrab Almasi
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Publicado:	Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2021
Materias:	telehealth telemedicine covid-19 infectious disease Medicine (General) R5-920
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:904ac291cfea45a7b3c647be0162f86a2021-11-29T06:16:21ZTelehealth in Management of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review0044-60251735-969410.18502/acta.v59i11.7773https://doaj.org/article/904ac291cfea45a7b3c647be0162f86a2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/8765https://doaj.org/toc/0044-6025https://doaj.org/toc/1735-9694COVID-19 has created major health-related, economic, and social challenges in societies, and its high contagion has dramatically altered access to healthcare. COVID-19 management can be improved by the use of telehealth. This study aimed to examine different telehealth technologies in the management of COVID-19 disease in the domains of surveillance, diagnosis, screening, treatment, monitoring, tracking, and follow-up, and investigate the challenges to the application of telehealth in COVID-19 management. This scoping review was conducted based on Arksey and O’Malley's framework. Searches were performed in Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus databases to examine the evidence on the effectiveness of telehealth in COVID-19 management. Eventually, 36 articles were selected based on the inclusion criteria. The majority of these studies (33%) were conducted in China. Most services offered via telehealth focused on surveillance, tracking, and follow-up, in that order. Moreover, the most frequently used technologies were social networks, web-based apps, and mobile apps, respectively. The use of telehealth in COVID-19 disease management plays a key role in surveillance, diagnosis, screening, treatment, monitoring, tracking, and follow-up.Farkhondeh AsadiSohrab AlmasiTehran University of Medical Sciencesarticletelehealthtelemedicinecovid-19infectious diseaseMedicine (General)R5-920ENActa Medica Iranica, Pp 629-640 (2021)
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description	COVID-19 has created major health-related, economic, and social challenges in societies, and its high contagion has dramatically altered access to healthcare. COVID-19 management can be improved by the use of telehealth. This study aimed to examine different telehealth technologies in the management of COVID-19 disease in the domains of surveillance, diagnosis, screening, treatment, monitoring, tracking, and follow-up, and investigate the challenges to the application of telehealth in COVID-19 management. This scoping review was conducted based on Arksey and O’Malley's framework. Searches were performed in Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus databases to examine the evidence on the effectiveness of telehealth in COVID-19 management. Eventually, 36 articles were selected based on the inclusion criteria. The majority of these studies (33%) were conducted in China. Most services offered via telehealth focused on surveillance, tracking, and follow-up, in that order. Moreover, the most frequently used technologies were social networks, web-based apps, and mobile apps, respectively. The use of telehealth in COVID-19 disease management plays a key role in surveillance, diagnosis, screening, treatment, monitoring, tracking, and follow-up.
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title	Telehealth in Management of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review
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Telehealth in Management of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

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