Review Article
Mobile Phone-Based Intervention in Hypertension Management
Table 2
Critical appraisal of therapeutic studies.
| Author | Year of publication | Study design | Number of participants | Level of evidence | Validity | Importance | Applicability | Randomization | Allocation concealment | Intention-to-treat | Blinding | Comparable treatment | Similarity treatment & control | Clinical importance | Statistical significance | Precision of Treatment effect | Domain | Feasibility of treatment | Benefit overweighs harm |
| Davidson et al. [5] | 2015 | RCT | 38 | 2 | + | ? | + | ? | + | + | ? | ? | + | - | - | + | Kim et al. [7] | 2016 | RCT | 95 | 2 | + | - | - | - | + | + | - | - | + | - | - | + | Bobrow et al. [8] | 2016 | RCT | 1157 | 2 | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | + | - | - | + | + | Varleta et al. [6] | 2017 | RCT | 291 | 2 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | Contreras et al. [9] | 2018 | RCT | 148 | 2 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | + | + |
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+ means present; - means absent; ? means unclear/not mentioned; means statistical significance at p<0.05. |