1 School of Health and Rehabilitation Science, The 1974 University of Queensland , Australia.
2 Centre for Research in Geriatric Medicine, The 1974 University of Queensland , Australia.
J Telemed Telecare. 2017 Oct;23(9):797-802. doi: 10.1177/1357633X17727772. Epub 2017 Sep 11.
When establishing telehealth services, clinicians need to be confident that the examinations, assessments and clinical decisions that they make while using technology are equivalent to conventional best practice. Method-comparison studies are ideally suited to answering these questions, however there is a lack of consistency in the telehealth literature in the study methodologies and data analysis techniques used. Methodologies should closely match clinical practice to maximise external validity and data analysis techniques should match the data types generated in order to be clinically meaningful. In this article we discuss the design, analysis and interpretation of method-comparison studies in the context of telehealth research.
在建立远程医疗服务时，临床医生需要确信他们在使用技术时进行的检查、评估和临床决策等同于传统的最佳实践。方法比较研究最适合回答这些问题，然而，在远程医疗文献中，所使用的研究方法和数据分析技术缺乏一致性。方法学应该密切匹配临床实践，以最大限度地提高外部有效性，数据分析技术应该与生成的数据类型匹配，以具有临床意义。在本文中，我们将讨论在远程医疗研究背景下方法比较研究的设计、分析和解释。
