Virtual Visits in Home Health Care for Older Adults

Table 1

Data abstraction and analysis^*.

Step  1: data reduction^*	Step  2: data comparison^* (a sample)
Study characteristics	Research design
	Health care setting
Service content and utilization	To reduce loneliness
	To enhance medication compliance
Patient experience	Decreased loneliness and enhanced psychosocial contact
	Satisfaction with the access and flexibility of the service
Experience of home health care nurses	Simplified teaching and informing the patient
	Concerns for patient privacy

Adopted from Whittemore and Knafl (2005) [16].