COVID-19 Pandemic and Remote Consultations in Children: A Bibliometric Analysis

Nicole Camoni, Silvia Cirio, Claudia Salerno, Araxi Balian, Giulia Bruni, Valeria D’Avola and Maria Grazia Cagetti ()
Additional contact information
Nicole Camoni: Department of Restorative, Preventive and Paediatric Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland
Silvia Cirio: Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy
Claudia Salerno: Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy
Araxi Balian: Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy
Giulia Bruni: Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy
Valeria D’Avola: Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy
Maria Grazia Cagetti: Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 16, 1-11

Abstract: Telemedicine is becoming a standard method of consultation, and the COVID-19 pandemic has increased its need. Telemedicine is suitable for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the pediatric population, as these are chronic conditions that affect many children worldwide. The aim of this study was to analyze the bibliometric parameters of publications on the use of telemedicine for the most common NCDs in children before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the electronic search, 585 records were selected. “Metabolic diseases” was the most frequent topic before and after the pandemic, accounting for 34.76% in 2017–2019 and 33.97% in 2020–2022. The average IF of the journals from which records were retrieved was 5.46 ± 4.62 before and 4.58 ± 2.82 after the pandemic, with no significant variation. The number of citations per reference averaged 14.71 ± 17.16 in 2017–2019 (95% CI: 12.07; 17.36) and 5.54 ± 13.71 in 2020–2022 (95% CI: 4.23; 6.86). Asthma, metabolic diseases, and neurodevelopmental disorders were the most explored topics. A relevant finding concerns the increasing number of observational studies after the pandemic, with a reduction of the interventional studies. The latter type of study should be recommended as it can increase the evaluation of new strategies for the management of NCDs.

Keywords: telemedicine; bibliometric analysis; non-communicable diseases; pediatrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/16/9787/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/16/9787/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:16:p:9787-:d:883585

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().