CONSORT-EHEALTH: Improving and Standardizing Evaluation Reports of Web-based and Mobile Health Interventions

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2011
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Abstract
Background: Web-based and mobile health interventions (also called “Internet interventions” or "eHealth/mHealth interventions") are tools or treatments, typically behaviorally based, that are operationalized and transformed for delivery via the Internet or mobile platforms. These include electronic tools for patients, informal caregivers, healthy consumers, and health care providers. The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement was developed to improve the suboptimal reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). While the CONSORT statement can be applied to provide broad guidance on how eHealth and mHealth trials should be reported, RCTs of web-based interventions pose very specific issues and challenges, in particular related to reporting sufficient details of the intervention to allow replication and theory-building. Objective: To develop a checklist, dubbed CONSORT-EHEALTH (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials of Electronic and Mobile HEalth Applications and onLine TeleHealth), as an extension of the CONSORT statement that provides guidance for authors of eHealth and mHealth interventions. Methods: A literature review was conducted, followed by a survey among eHealth experts and a workshop. Results: A checklist instrument was constructed as an extension of the CONSORT statement. The instrument has been adopted by the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) and authors of eHealth RCTs are required to submit an electronic checklist explaining how they addressed each subitem. Conclusions: CONSORT-EHEALTH has the potential to improve reporting and provides a basis for evaluating the validity and applicability of eHealth trials. Subitems describing how the intervention should be reported can also be used for non-RCT evaluation reports. As part of the development process, an evaluation component is essential; therefore, feedback from authors will be solicited, and a before-after study will evaluate whether reporting has been improved. [J Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e126]
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Authors CONSORT-EHEALTH Group;
Journal Journal of medical Internet research
Year 2011
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doi:10.2196/jmir.1923
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https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.1923
Keywords
internet medical reporting standards Internet research medicine journal ehealth JMIR open access publishing medical research medical informaticsevaluation cell phone Internet National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE clinical trials as topic humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine research support non-u.s. gov't editorial guidelines as topic gunther eysenbach pmid:22209829 pmc3278112 doi:10.2196/jmir.1923 consort-ehealth group medical informatics / standards publishing telemedicine* / standards

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