Virtual reality for health professions education: Systematic review and meta-analysis by the digital health education collaboration

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Kyaw, Bhone Myint ^a   Saxena, Nakul ^b   Posadzki, Pawel ^a   Vseteckova, Jitka ^c   Nikolaou, Charoula Konstantia ^d   George, Pradeep Paul ^b   Divakar, Ushashree ^a   Masiello, Italo ^e,f   Kononowicz, Andrzej A ^g   Zary, Nabil ^a,e,h   Car, Lorainne Tudor ^a,i  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL HEALTHCARE GROUP   (Singapore)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^h MOHAMMED VI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Morocco)

ⁱ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health professions education; Meta analysis; Randomized controlled trials; Systematic review; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OCCUPATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATISFACTION; SKILL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VIRTUAL REALITY; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MEDICAL PROFESSION; PROCEDURES;

HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 85060374828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/12959     Document Type: Review

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