Systematic Review of Mobile Health: an overview

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Wang Q1, Lai H2, Guo T2, Xiao Y2, Ge L1
1Evidence-Based Social Science Research Center, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University
2Department of Social Science and Health Management, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University
Abstract
Background: With the rapid development of wireless communication technology and the popularity of mobile phones, mobile medicine provides a powerful platform for patients to receive personalized medical services and real-time and convenient communication in recent years. Mobile medicine has been widely used in our daily life. Using mobile medicine technology to help people's health has become a hot spot. The empirical research triggered by this is not in the minority, and the systematic review increased gradually, however, the quality of different systematic reviews is unclear, some results are even contradictory, which makes it difficult for people to make effective decisions in the face of complex evidence. It is necessary to evaluate the subject through a reevaluation of the systematic review, which aims to provide more concentrated and high-quality evidence for practical work and decision-making.

Objectives: To conduct an overview of systematic review in mobile medicine.

Methods: We searched PubMed, EMBASE, Medline, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Cochrane Library to collect systematic reviews and meta-analysis about mobile medicine as fully as possible. We included “mobile medicine”, “systematic review”, “meta-analysis” and extracted the first author, year of publication, name of mobile medicine, number of studies, funding sources and so on. The literature screening and data extraction carried out by four reviewers independently by using EndNote software. Any conflicts in the results are discussed after careful discussion. We used the AMSTAR scale to analyze the methodology quality of the included researches.

Results: This study is ongoing and all results will be presented at the Cochrane Colloquium as available.

Conclusions: This study is ongoing and all results will be presented at the Cochrane Colloquium as available.

Patient or healthcare consumer involvement: No applicable.