How to find out burning problem of telemedicine?
Sample of 177 cited papers from Current Contents in year 2001 containing word 'telemedicine' as a keyword, and/or in title and/or in abstract. Most of papers were coming from Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare, International Journal of Medical Informatics and Telemedicine Journal & E-Health. Titles and abstracts were analysed statistically by using Sphinx Lexica as a tool and lexical statistics and lexical analysis as methods. Environment/neighbourhood of words potentially reflecting evaluation in telemedicine, enabled to make synthesis: evaluation or similar words were mentioned in connections with programs and plans of telemedicine application in the whole, with economic issue (minimizing, low-cost, reducing cost), with ICT evaluation, quality, and scarcely with methodology and criteria for evaluation.
Kern
Josipa
J
Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Medical School University of Zagreb, Rockefellerova 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Becue
Monica
M
Hercigonja-Szekeres
Mira
M
Vuletic
Silvije
S
D008490:Medical Informatics; D017216:Telemedicine