Coronavirus (COVID-19): remote care through telehealth

This page provides systematic reviews most directly relevant to remote health care through telehealth.

◆Communication systems to facilitate health care remotely

-Automated telephone communication systems for preventive healthcare and management of long‐term conditions
-Telephone interventions, delivered by healthcare professionals, for providing education and psychosocial support for informal caregivers of adults with diagnosed illnesses
-Clients’ perceptions and experiences of targeted digital communication accessible via mobile devices for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health: a qualitative evidence synthesis
-Health workers’ perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis
-Interactive telemedicine: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
-Face‐to‐face versus remote and web 2.0 interventions for promoting physical activity

◆Asthma and COPD

-Home telemonitoring and remote feedback between clinic visits for asthma
-Remote versus face‐to‐face check‐ups for asthma
-Computer and mobile technology interventions for self‐management in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
-Shared decision‐making for people with asthma

◆Cancer

-Telephone interventions for symptom management in adults with cancer

◆Cardiovascular conditions

-Mobile phone text messaging to improve medication adherence in secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
-mHealth education interventions in heart failure
-Mobile phone‐based interventions for improving adherence to medication prescribed for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults
-Structured telephone support or non‐invasive telemonitoring for patients with heart failure

◆Mental health and neurological conditions

-Diagnostic test accuracy of telehealth assessment for dementia and mild cognitive impairment
-Remotely delivered information, training and support for informal caregivers of people with dementia
-Specialist home‐based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses
-Psychological therapies (remotely delivered) for the management of chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents
-Telerehabilitation for persons with multiple sclerosis
-Telerehabilitation services for stroke
-Personalised digital interventions for reducing hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption in community‐dwelling populations
-Assistive technology for memory support in dementia
-Efficacy and experiences of telephone counselling for informal carers of people with dementia

◆Conditions related to genetic disorders

-Computer and mobile technology interventions to promote medication adherence and disease management in people with thalassemia

◆Abdominal and endocrine conditions

-Computer‐based diabetes self‐management interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus
-eHealth interventions for people with chronic kidney disease

◆Fertility, pregnancy, and neonatal conditions

-Telephone support for women during pregnancy and the first six weeks postpartum
-Targeted client communication via mobile devices for improving maternal, neonatal, and child health
-Telemedicine for the support of parents of high‐risk newborn infants
-Mobile phone‐based interventions for improving contraception use
-Self‐administered versus provider‐administered medical abortion

◆Eyes and vision conditions

-Telerehabilitation for people with low vision

◆Reproductive and sexual health

-Targeted client communication via mobile devices for improving sexual and reproductive health

◆Skin conditions

-Teledermatology for diagnosing skin cancer in adults
-Smartphone applications for triaging adults with skin lesions that are suspicious for melanoma