10 Wireless health clinical trials

By: Brian Dolan | Nov 11, 2009

Austria: Bacterial Contamination of Anaesthetists’ Hands by Personal Mobile Phones Used in the Operating Theatre

Principal Investigator: Arnulf Benzer, MD, Medical University Innsbruck

The use of mobile phones in the operating room (OR) has become widespread, because of the lack of reports on serious problems. Since mobile phones are used in close body contact and since, as for most non-medical electronic equipment, there are no cleaning guidelines that meet hospital standards, the hygiene risk involved in using mobile phones in the OR has not yet been determined.

Estimated Enrollment: 40
Study Start Date: January 2007
Study Completion Date: November 2007

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[...] Sinai and Carespeak conducted are an important step in the process toward proven efficacy – MobiHealthNews rounded up 10 other wireless health clinical trials from around the world that also aimed to determine the efficacy of various wireless health systems. The GSM Association [...]
http://www.ctru.auckland.ac.nz robyn whittaker

There are other places that trials can be registered – i am involved with three mobile phone clinical trials that are registered either in the UK or Australasia. One large text messaging programme to help people quit smoking in the UK (txt2stop), another quit smoking programme that uses video messaging by role models in NZ, and a depression prevention programme for teens that uses multimedia messaging and mobile websites in NZ. For more details http://www.ctru.auckland.ac.nz.

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