National randomized controlled trial of virtual house calls for Parkinson disease
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Virtual house calls for Parkinson disease (Connect.Parkinson): study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial
BACKGROUND Interest in improving care for the growing number of individuals with chronic conditions is rising. However, access to care is limited by distance, disability, and distribution of doctors. Small-scale studies in Parkinson disease, a prototypical chronic condition, have suggested that delivering care using video house calls is feasible, offers similar clinical outcomes to in-person ca...
متن کاملErratum To: Virtual house calls for Parkinson disease (Connect.Parkinson): study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial
After the publication of this article [1], it was discovered that eleven of the trials listed in the original article's Table 1 [1], had been erroneously identified as taking place in the home [2–12]. These studies actually evaluated physician videoconferencing visits with patients located in clinics. To ensure accuracy, we repeated the literature search in September of 2015, using the same sea...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000004357