A rapid literature review to identify equity issues in access and delivery of virtual care interventions
Project Status
Current
Chief investigators
Ben Harris-Roxas, Fiona Haigh
Project Coordinator
Sabuj Kanti Mistry
Project Rationale
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 many health services rapidly pivoted to virtual care as an emergency method of reaching their clients. RPA Virtual Hospital (rpavirtual) launched in February 2020. While it was planned before the outbreak of COVID-19 it has been central in pivoting to provide telehealth during the pandemic. There is a growing body of studies being carried out on the expansion of virtual care interventions, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic but the equity issues related to the virtual care intervention have not been adequately explored and summarised.
Project Aim/s
This review aimed to consolidate and synthesise knowledge about equity issues in access and delivery of virtual care interventions and to investigate the international literature related to equity issues in virtual care programs to consider virtual care strategies that may be adopted by rpavirtual
Project Design and Method
A Rapid Scoping Review will be undertaken and the main search databases will be included are Medline, EMBASE and CINAHL and the time period covered will be January 2010 to January 2021.
Relevant information will be extracted from the included studies using a customized extraction tool and narrative synthesis will be performed.
