How to formulate research questions and design studies for telehealth assessment and evaluation

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 759-763

  Fatehi, Farhad ^a,b,c   Smith, Anthony C ^a   Maeder, Anthony ^d   Wade, Victoria ^e   Gray, Leonard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

assessment; evaluation; research question; Telehealth; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; MATURITY; SCIENTIST; STUDY DESIGN; TELEMEDICINE; COMPUTER NETWORK; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 85032509537     PISSN: 1357633X     EISSN: 17581109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357633X16673274     Document Type: Article

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