Remote monitoring for long-term physical health conditions: an evidence and gap map

Ref ID 1006
First Author S. de Bell
Journal HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE DELIVERY RESEARCH
Year Of Publishing 2023
URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK597759/
Keywords Telemedicine
General medical
Low methodological quality
Problem(s) Lack of supplementary searches beyond databases
Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided
Funding or sponsor of systematic review not reported
Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review
Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
No registered or published protocol
Number of systematic reviews included 72
Summary of Findings The majority of the 72 reviews in the map were of low quality (n = 33; 45.8%) of which 12 were of critically low quality (16.6%). In 56% of included reviews, the reason for low quality was the lack of a protocol. It was often unclear whether the risk of bias in other quantitative study designs or qualitative studies had been assessed adequately (70%). Many reviews had adequate searches but their search strategies were not rated as fully comprehensive (68%), as they did not search as extensively as possible, for example in the grey literature or the reference lists of included studies. Few reviews described the funding sources of studies (82%) or gave full details of excluded studies (71%).
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? Not Applicable
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study?