International Journal of Hypertension

Review Article

Mobile Phone-Based Intervention in Hypertension Management

Table 2

Critical appraisal of therapeutic studies.
AuthorYear 
of publication		Study 
design		Number of 
participants		Level of 
evidence		ValidityImportanceApplicability
RandomizationAllocation 
concealment		Intention-to-treatBlindingComparable 
treatment		Similarity 
treatment & 
control		Clinical 
importance		Statistical 
significance		Precision of  
Treatment 
effect 		DomainFeasibility of  
treatment		Benefit 
overweighs 
harm
Davidson et al. [5]2015RCT382+?+?++??+--+
Kim et al. [7]2016RCT952+---++--+--+
Bobrow et al. [8]2016RCT11572++++++-+--++
Varleta et al. [6]2017RCT2912++++++++++++
Contreras et al. [9]2018RCT1482+++++++++-++
+ means present; - means absent; ? means unclear/not mentioned; means statistical significance at p<0.05.