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.
Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Medical School University of Zagreb, Rockefellerova 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Josipa
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Kern
Monica
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Becue
Mira
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Hercigonja-Szekeres
Silvije
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Vuletic
D008490:Medical Informatics; D017216:Telemedicine