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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2023

Benefits of Integrating Technology into Home Exercise Therapy in Patients with Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease.

Andreea Rotundu, Andra Oancea, Alexandra Maștaleru, Alexandru-Dan Costache, Carmen Marinela Cumpăt, Irina Mihaela Abdulan, Anisia Iuliana Alexa, Costin Chirica, Mara Russu, Maria Magdalena Leon

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Treatment experience of patients with failedFrontiers in public health · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andreea RotunduDoctoral School, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 16 Universității Str., 700115 Iasi, Romania.
Andra OanceaDepartment of Medical Specialties I, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iasi, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-1356-9581
Alexandra MaștaleruDepartment of Medical Specialties I, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iasi, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-0008-9696
Alexandru-Dan CostacheDepartment of Medical Specialties I, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iasi, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-8544-9904
Carmen Marinela CumpătClinical Rehabilitation Hospital, 700661 Iasi, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-2564-537X
Irina Mihaela AbdulanDepartment of Medical Specialties I, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iasi, Romania.
Anisia Iuliana AlexaDepartment of Surgery II, Discipline of Ophthalmology, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iasi, Romania.
Costin ChiricaDoctoral School, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 16 Universității Str., 700115 Iasi, Romania.
Mara RussuDoctoral School, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 16 Universității Str., 700115 Iasi, Romania.
Maria Magdalena LeonDepartment of Medical Specialties I, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iasi, Romania.
Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest · ROGrigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: Telerehabilitation is an approach that uses digital technology to provide remote medical recovery services. It can be an option for cardiovascular recovery at home in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) of the lower limbs. (2) Methods: We performed literature research through two databases: PubMed and Embase. We included randomized controlled trials and cohort studies that evaluated the effectiveness of a technology-assisted home exercise intervention compared with conventional rehabilitation or the usual care in patients with PAD. We analyzed population, intervention, and outcome data. (3) Results: We identified 2468 studies. After rigorous screening, we included 25 articles in the review. The following results were evaluated: dissemination and acceptance of digital technologies among these people, functional capacity, exercise intensity, patient motivation, sex-specific response differences in mortality and clinical outcomes, quality of life assessment, and changes in values of inflammatory biomarkers. All of these were correlated with the type of intervention and the dose of the exercise. (4) Conclusions: Home-based exercise therapy supervised with the help of specific devices could be successfully implemented in the therapeutic management of the PAD population. Health specialists should take into account the clinical-paraclinical profile and the emotional status of the patients. Such individualized interventions could bring significant benefits for the people with this disease and for the healthcare system, including increasing exercise adherence, engagement, self-care capacity, life expectancy, and quality of life for these patients, as well as reducing their symptoms, cardiovascular complications, and hospitalizations.

Indexed as

home-based exerciseperipheral arterial diseasetelerehabilitation

Identifiers

PMID38137704
PMCPMC10744306
OpenAlexW4389624624

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