Thiessen Maclean, Soriano Andrea Michelle, Loewen Hal John, Decker Kathleen Margaret
Research Institute of Oncology and Hematology, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Department of Internal Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
JMIR Res Protoc. 2020 Dec 15;9(12):e25501. doi: 10.2196/25501.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telemedicine by oncology physicians in Manitoba, Canada, has increased to limit the risk of exposure to the virus for both patients and health care providers. It is not clear how telemedicine impacts the information needs of patients or the experience of receiving cancer care.
The objective of this study is to describe how the use of telemedicine impacts the information needs and experience of patients with cancer and their informal caregivers (ie, family and friends) and identify directions for future research.
This review will include all studies addressing telemedicine in the cancer context including those using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. This scoping review will be conducted using the methodology described by the Joanna Briggs Institute. In collaboration with a librarian scientist specializing in health sciences, a comprehensive search will be undertaken to identify and retrieve relevant reports published in English from 1990 to the present. Databases searched will include MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, Scopus, Cochrane Library, and PsycINFO. Data will be extracted by two independent reviewers, synthesized, and reported in a summary table and in a narrative format describing what has been reported regarding the impact of telemedicine by physicians in oncology on the experience of patients and their informal caregivers and their receipt of information.
The results from this scoping review are expected to be available by late spring 2021.
The results from this scoping review will be useful for informing practice as well as directing future research, both in the context of COVID-19 and beyond.
INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): PRR1-10.2196/25501.
在新冠疫情期间，加拿大曼尼托巴省的肿瘤内科医生增加了远程医疗的使用，以降低患者和医护人员接触病毒的风险。目前尚不清楚远程医疗如何影响患者的信息需求或接受癌症护理的体验。
本研究的目的是描述远程医疗的使用如何影响癌症患者及其非正式照护者（即家人和朋友）的信息需求和体验，并确定未来研究的方向。
本综述将纳入所有涉及癌症背景下远程医疗的研究，包括使用定量、定性和混合方法的研究。本范围综述将采用乔安娜·布里格斯研究所描述的方法进行。与一位专门从事健康科学的图书馆科学家合作，将进行全面检索，以识别和检索1990年至今以英文发表的相关报告。检索的数据库将包括MEDLINE、CINAHL、EMBASE、Scopus、Cochrane图书馆和PsycINFO。数据将由两名独立的评审员提取、综合，并以汇总表和叙述形式报告，描述肿瘤内科医生关于远程医疗对患者及其非正式照护者的体验以及他们获取信息的影响的报告内容。
预计本范围综述的结果将于2021年春末公布。
本范围综述的结果将有助于指导实践以及指导未来的研究，无论是在新冠疫情背景下还是其他情况下。
国际注册报告识别号（IRRID）：PRR1-10.2196/25501
