Effects of family continuity of care on psychological status and treatment compliance of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at stable stage

Abstract

  Background: In China, the telemedicine market is increasing very rapidly. Though there is no systematic review I have not published for telemedicine.  Telemedicine interventions in COPD have not been described and the effectiveness is not clear. Objective: In this review, we emphasize the telemedicine intervention on COPD patients in southeastern countries and we also assess the telemedicine effectivity on the treatment. Method: A literature review has been done based on the different sites of the literature base like PubMed, CNKI, etc. Results: We found that a total of 24 pieces of literature has been analyzed. The life quality has been found in the control group ( CI- -6.9 to -3.00, p value<0.0001), but the heterogeneity is the very low  than the control group (OR-0.2 [95% CI- 0.2-0.3],p<0.00001) and the heterogeneity is the  very high (I2 value=85%, p=0.0001). The hospitalization are less than the control group ( I2 = 25%, p=0.14). Conclusion: Telemedicine implementation in China has not been standardized. Our result of the review indicated that telemedicine can develop the life quality and hospitalization rate in COPD patients.