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There has been a huge increase in the development of new e-health initiatives, including interventions supporting the interaction between patients and healthcare professionals – the clinical encounter. This interaction can influence clinical decision making during a patient's workup or treatment process. This scoping review was designed (i) to display the current landscape of web-based interventions to support the clinical encounter, and (ii) to critically appraise their composition. A literature search of different electronic databases was conducted. The study interventions were required to be for infertile patients and internet based, including the clinical encounter. The selected studies were systematically appraised. Twenty-eight studies were included and divided into four categories: online platform (10 studies), telemonitoring (3 studies), teleconsulting (8 studies) and artificial intelligence (7 studies). The online platform and teleconsulting categories focused most on patient-reported outcomes, with positive results. The other categories focused on development and validation. In conclusion, this review shows a broad landscape of web-based interventions in the clinical encounter, for healthcare professionals and fertility patients. The teleconsulting and the online platform categories have the most 'ready-to-use' interventions. However, the actual implementation of the interventions was evaluated in only four studies, suggesting challenges with implementation research and the need for standardized implementation protocols. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background Low-value care provides little or no benefit to the patient, causes harm and wastes limited resources. Reducing it is therefore important for safer and more sustainable care. Objectives We systematically assessed nursing low-value care practices in Dutch clinical practice guidelines with the aim to facilitate and stimulate nurses to reduce this low-value care. Methods We screened Dutch clinical practice guidelines for do-not-do recommendations stating that specific nursing care should be avoided. We combined similar recommendations and categorized them by specialism-related groups of nurses, the settings where care took place, and the kind of care according to the Fundamentals of Care framework. Results We found 66 nursing do-not-do recommendations in 125 clinical practice guidelines, for example, 'Do not use physical restraints in case of a delirium'. Most recommendations were relevant for intensive care nurses (n = 23) and the hospital care setting (n = 49). The majority of recommendations concerned the element safety, prevention and medication of the Fundamentals of Care framework (n = 38). Conclusions This is the first systematic assessment of low-value nursing care in clinical practice guidelines. The majority of the 66 low-value care practices are not mentioned in other low-value care lists and are therefore new targets for de-implementation. The next step to reducing low-value care should be to create awareness amongst nurses, stimulate the dialogue on de-implementation in practice and facilitate quality improvement projects to quantify and reduce nursing low-value care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]