RCTs

Mobile health literature builds as researchers explore alternatives to RCTs

By Neil Versel 09:45 am July 16, 2013

Dr. Robert Kaplan The research community appears to be relishing the challenge of producing enough scientific evidence to prove or disprove the efficacy of mobile health technologies while also remaining open to new methods of evaluation that can keep pace with rapid innovation. "The literature has really mushroomed in the last couple of years," Robert M. Kaplan, director of the Office of...

Scientific mobile health research found severely lacking

By Neil Versel 02:28 am January 17, 2013

Dr Caroline Free also led the efficacy trial for Txt2Stop, a SMS-based smoking cessation service Despite all the hype and promise around mobile healthcare technologies, the scientific evidence supporting clinical efficacy of mobile health continues to fall short, according to two new papers in the journal PLOS Medicine. British researchers examined 20 years' worth of published studies on mobile...