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Mobile phone messaging for facilitating self‐management of long‐term illnesses

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD007459.pub2Copy DOI
Database:
  1. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Version published:
  1. 12 December 2012see what's new
Type:
  1. Intervention
Stage:
  1. Review
Cochrane Editorial Group:
  1. Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group

Copyright:
  1. Copyright © 2012 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Authors

  • Thyra de Jongh

    Gephyra IHC, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Ipek Gurol‐Urganci

    Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

  • Vlasta Vodopivec‐Jamsek

    Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Josip Car

    Correspondence to: Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    [email protected]

    Global eHealth Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK

  • Rifat Atun

    Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Strategy, Performance & Evaluation Cluster, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

Contributions of authors

Josip Car conceived the review together with Rifat Atun. He is the contact author for the reviews and coordinated all stages of the study, including the protocol stage. He advised on designing the search strategy, screening search results against inclusion criteria, and appraising quality of the papers. He assisted in interpreting the data and contributed to writing the review, providing clinical and consumer perspectives. 

Ipek Gurol‐Urganci developed the protocols. She has led the search process and assisted in screening the papers. She collected, analysed and interpreted data and contributed to writing the review, providing methodological and policy perspectives.

Vlasta Vodopivec Jamšek developed the protocols. She has been involved in the screening and quality appraisal process and assisted in undertaking searches. She has collected, analysed and interpreted data and contributed to writing the review, providing clinical and consumer perspectives.

Thyra de Jongh coordinated data extraction and management and was involved in the screening and quality appraisal process. She has collected, analysed and interpreted data and contributed to writing the review, providing a methodological perspective.

Rifat Atun provided general direction for the studies and assisted in writing the review.

Sources of support

Internal sources

  • eHealth Unit, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, UK.

    salaries, office space

  • Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

    salaries, office space

  • Centre for Health Management, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, UK.

    salaries, office space

  • Imperial College London, UK.

    salaries, office space

External sources

  • Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Slovenia.

    grant funding

Declarations of interest

None known.

Acknowledgements

We are very grateful for the support provided by the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group editorial base, in particular by Sophie Hill and Megan Prictor.

Version history

Published

Title

Stage

Authors

Version

2012 Dec 12

Mobile phone messaging for facilitating self‐management of long‐term illnesses

Review

Thyra de Jongh, Ipek Gurol‐Urganci, Vlasta Vodopivec‐Jamsek, Josip Car, Rifat Atun

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD007459.pub2

2008 Oct 08

Mobile phone messaging telemedicine for facilitating self management of long‐term illnesses

Protocol

Thyra de Jongh, Ipek Gurol‐Urganci, Vlasta Vodopivec‐Jamsek, Josip Car, Rifat Atun

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD007459

Differences between protocol and review

Search strategy

We were not able to search the following databases we listed in the protocol:

  • Proceedings from the MEDNET Congress: We could not access the proceedings.

  • TrialsCentralTM (www.trialscentral.org): The website for the database was not functional and did not allow for the search of clinical trials.

  • African Trials Register: The trials in the African Trials Register are collected with a search strategy using the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register and the African Health Anthology (AHA). As we search both original sources, it was not necessary to access the African Trials Register separately.

  • Health Star: The database ceased to exist as of December 2000, with all peer‐reviewed journal articles transferred to PubMed.

PICOs

Population
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome

The PICO model is widely used and taught in evidence-based health care as a strategy for formulating questions and search strategies and for characterizing clinical studies or meta-analyses. PICO stands for four different potential components of a clinical question: Patient, Population or Problem; Intervention; Comparison; Outcome.

See more on using PICO in the Cochrane Handbook.