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What is our PICO ?

How does telehealth services in rural areas influence health outcomes for older adults.

What does P stand for ? I ? C ? O ?

Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes

What’s our P?

Older adults in rural areas

What’s our I ?

Telehealth services

What’s our C ?

To older adults in rural areas receiving in person services

What’s our O ?

Is there health benefits for older adults to using telehealth in rural areas

What are our search terms ?

Telehealth, Telemedicine, Telemonitor, Telecare, Telenursing, Telepractice, Remote consultation, Video Conferance and rural, rural communities, rural populations, remote communities, remote areas and underserved and older adult, elderly, aged, senior, geriatric

What databases were searched ?

Medline (EBSCO), Pubmed, CINAHL, Scopus

How did you find your articles

We made sure our search terms were in the title or abstract so they were relevant and specific to our search. We then looked into peer- reviewed journal articles.

What’s our 6 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Ages, Focus, type of article, language, published date, search terms

What are the overall findings of the general papers ?

• better healthcare access

• Improved health outcomes

• It was received well by caregivers and patients

• Digital literacy enhanced and also limited the use of telehealth

• Limited resources such as lack of signal impacted the success of telehealth

What are the strengths

• they give caregivers perspectives

• There is a broad array of papers: controlled randomised trials, pilot study and systematic reviews

• Have direct relevance to our PICO - contains all 3 search terms

Limitations

• small sample size

• Mainly men

• Few studies looked at the sustainability of telehealth

• Focused on specific rural regions

Gaps

• not specific to Irish population

• Not looking at the long- term outcomes and sustainability of telehealth

• Not comparing the urban and rural populations