Role of Telemedicine in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Lanlan Pang   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Hengyu Liu   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Zhidong Liu   ² , MD ;   Jinyu Tan   ¹ , MD ;   Long-yuan Zhou   ¹ , MD ;   Yun Qiu   ¹ , MD ;   Xiaoqing Lin   ¹ , MD ;   Jinshen He   ¹ , MD ;   Xuehua Li   ⁴ , MD ;   Sinan Lin   ¹ , MD ;   Subrata Ghosh   ⁵ , MD ;   Ren Mao   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Minhu Chen   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

² Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

³ Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Department of Spine Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

⁴ Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

⁵ NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Translational Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom

*these authors contributed equally