Key result
Telemedicine for cardiometabolic disease requires future focus on data security, safety, and implementation.
Why the study?
The study was conducted to identify, categorize, and prioritize current implications for future research in telemedicine for diabetes and hypertension to inform policy and practice decisions.
Future telemedicine research should prioritize data security, patient safety, patient satisfaction, implementation strategies, and long-term evaluations over small pilot studies.
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These priorities should guide future trial funding without changing current practice; leaves open optimal telemedicine implementation for diabetes and hypertension.
(1) Background: The objective of this study was to identify, categorize and prioritize current implications for future research in the use telemedicine for diabetes and hypertension in order to inform policy and practice decisions. (2) Methods: An iterative mixed methods design was followed, including three consecutive steps: An updated umbrella review of telemedicine effectiveness, qualitative content analysis of extracted data on current research needs and a quantitative survey with practitioners and health care researchers in order to prioritize the identified needs. (3) Results: Overall, 32 included records reported on future research implications. Qualitative content analysis yielded five categories as well as subcategories, covering a need for high quality studies, comprehensive technology assessments, in-depth considerations of patients’ characteristics, ethics and safety as well as implementation strategies. The online survey revealed that the most pressing future research needs are data security, patient safety, patient satisfaction, implementation strategies and longer follow-ups. Chi² statistics and t-tests revealed significant differences in the priorities of participants with and without experience in telemedicine use, evaluation and development. A factor analysis revealed six over-arching factors. (4) Conclusion: These results may help learning from mistakes previously made and may serve as key topics of a future telemedicine research agenda.
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Timpel et al. (2020) studied Diabetes and Hypertension (Telemedicine research) (n=86). Telemedicine was evaluated on Prioritization of future research needs. Data security, patient safety, patient satisfaction, implementation strategies, and longer follow-ups were identified as the most pressing future research needs in telemedicine for diabetes and hypertension.
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