The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technology-Based Health Behaviour Change or Disease Management Interventions for Health Care Consumers: A Systematic Review

By C. Free, G. Phillips, Leandro Galli, Louise Watson, L. Felix, P. Edwards, Vikram Patel, A. Haines. PLoS Medicine, 2013

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Caroline Free and colleagues systematically review a fast-moving field, that of the effectiveness of mobile technology interventions delivered to healthcare consumers, and conclude that high-quality, adequately powered trials of optimized interventions are required to evaluate effects on objective outcomes.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions

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