Virtual patient effectiveness evidence comes from both high-income and low- and middle-income countries¶

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Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Positive evidence of virtual patient effectiveness was collected in both high-income and low- and middle-income country settings, supporting global applicability. → Kononowicz AA 2019

Evidence¶

Kononowicz AA 2019¶

Kononowicz AA, Woodham LA, Edelbring S, Stathakarou N, Davies D, Saxena N, Tudor Car L, Carlstedt-Duke J, Car J, Zary N. (2019). Virtual Patient Simulations in Health Professions Education: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by the Digital Health Education Collaboration. Journal of Medical Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.2196/14676

q2 · i? · quant-synthesis · r3

Across the 51 included trials, 44 were conducted in high-income countries and 7 in low- and middle-income countries (China, Colombia, South Africa, Iran). The review presents this distribution as evidence of global applicability.

"We collected positive evidence of effectiveness from both high-income and low-and-middle-income countries demonstrating the global applicability of virtual patients."

Discussion¶

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