Publications by authors named "Ting-An Lu"

Introduction: Telehealth is an important complement to in-person healthcare, with opportunities to overcome barriers to healthcare and improve health equity. Telehealth utilization increased sharply at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study assessed trends in telehealth utilization for the years 2020 through 2022, both overall and in subgroups.

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Objective: Improving synergy among regulation, health technology assessment (HTA) and clinical guideline development is relevant as these independent processes are building on shared evidence-based grounds. The two objectives were first to assess how convergence of evidentiary needs among stakeholders may be achieved, and second, to determine to what extent convergence can be achieved.

Design: Qualitative study using eight online dual-moderator focus groups.

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Introduction: Since being designated as medicines by World Health Organization (WHO), blood components are subject to pharmacovigilance reporting. Using VigiBase, the WHO global database of individual case safety reports (ICSRs), we characterized reports of adverse reactions for all blood products.

Study Design And Methods: ICSRs involving blood products as the suspected medicine in VigiBase between 1968 and 2021 were extracted.

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