Hospital information technology in home care
Authors: Pei-Ying Zhang
Xiao-Ying Zhang
Journal: Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine (2016)
Discipline: CLINICAL MEDICINE
Keywords: chronic illness; experiences; home care; information and communication technology; qualitative research.
Affiliations: Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Information Institute, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, P.R. China., Xuzhou Central Hospital, The Affiliated Xuzhou Hospital of Medical College of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221009, P.R. China.

Abstract:  The utilization of hospital information technology (HIT) as a tool for home care is a recent trend in health science. Subjects gaining benefits from this new endeavor include middle-aged individuals with serious chronic illness living at home. Published data on the utilization of health care information technology especially for home care in chronic illness patients have increased enormously in recent past. The common chronic illnesses reported in these studies were primarily on heart and lung diseases. Furthermore, health professionals have confirmed in these studies that HIT was beneficial in gaining better access to information regarding their patients and they were also able to save that information easily for future use. On the other hand, some health professional also observed that the use of HIT in home care is not suitable for everyone and that individuals cannot be replaced by HIT. On the whole it is clear that the use of HIT could complement communication in home care. The present review aims to shed light on these latest aspects of the health care information technology in home care. 

Retracted: Yes

PubPeer comments:
 The text of this review paper appears to be unexpectedly similar to a 2012 PhD thesis by Carina Nilsson at the Luleu00e5 University of Technology in Sweden, called  Information and communication technology as a tool for support in home care . That 2012 thesis can be found here: https: www.diva-portal.org smash get diva2:990344 FULLTEXT01.pdf Here is a marked-up version of the text by Zhang and Zhang 2016, with highlighted text showing similarities to the thesis. Generated in SimTexter : ![file] ![file] , 
 September 2020 retraction. https: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc articles PMC7480136 Statement by the journal:  Following the publication of this article, an interested reader drew to our attention that the flow of the text, and the wording of numerous passages of text within the article, bore striking and unexpected similarities to the wording employed in a PhD thesis by Carina Nilsson at the Luleu00e5 University of Technology in Sweden in 2012 entitled u201cInformation and Communication Technology as a Tool for Support in Home Careu201d. After having conducted an internal investigation, the Editor of Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine has determined beyond all reasonable doubt that the review submitted to the Journal shared an unacceptable level of identity with the PhD thesis by Carina Nilsson. The authors were contacted about these apparent similarities between their review and the thesis, although they failed to respond to our query in this regard. The Editor of Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine deeply regrets that this article was not intercepted by our own checks for plagiarism prior to the publication of the review, and sincerely apologizes to the author of the PhD thesis and the readership for the inconvenience caused. We also thank the reader for bringing this matter to our attention. ,