Effect of telemedicine follow-up care of leg and foot ulcers

"The available evidence is too weak to make conclusions about the effectiveness of telemedicine follow-up care of patients with leg and foot ulcers. Larger and more rigorous studies are needed to enable strong conclusions and clinical recommendations to be made."

Effect of telemedicine follow-up care of leg and foot ulcers: a systematic review
LV Nordheim, M Tveit Haavind, MM Iversen
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:565

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Improving integrated care: modelling the performance of an online community of practice

"Public policies promoting the use of information and communication technologies in the field of medicine in general, and in communities of practice in particular, should go beyond the purely technological dimension and consider other professional and social determinants, as well as those of a contextual and organisational nature."

Improving integrated care: modelling the performance of an online community of practice
Á Díaz-Chao, J Torrent-Sellens, D Lacasta-Tintorer, F Saigí-Rubió
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2014; Jan–Mar

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