Mobile health (mHealth) intervention improved clinical outcomes for diabetes and hypertension compared with conventional care across different economic levels (51 studies, N=13,054).
Meta-Analysis (n=13,054)
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Does mobile health (mHealth) intervention improve clinical outcomes in patients with diabetes and hypertension compared to conventional care?
Mobile health interventions, particularly when combined with human intelligence, effectively improve clinical outcomes in the management of diabetes and hypertension across various economic settings.
With the continuous development of science and technology, mobile health (mHealth) intervention has been proposed as a treatment strategy for managing chronic diseases. In some developed countries, mHealth intervention has been proven to remarkably improve both the quality of care for patients with chronic illnesses and the clinical outcomes of these patients. However, the effectiveness of mHealth in developing countries remains unclear. Based on this fact, we conducted this systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the impact of mHealth on countries with different levels of economic development. To this end, we searched Pubmed, ResearchGate, Embase and Cochrane databases for articles published from January 2008 to June 2019. All of the studies included were randomized controlled trials. A meta-analysis was performed using the Stata software. A total of 51 articles (including 13 054 participants) were eligible for our systematic review and meta-analysis. We discovered that mHealth intervention did not only play a major role in improving clinical outcomes compared with conventional care, but also had a positive impact on countries with different levels of economic development. More importantly, our study also found that clinical outcomes could be ameliorated even further by combining mHealth with human intelligence rather than using mHealth intervention exclusively. According to our analytical results, mHealth intervention could be used as a treatment strategy to optimize the management of diabetes and hypertension in countries with different levels of economic development.
Mao et al. (Tue,) conducted a meta-analysis in diabetes and hypertension (n=13,054). mobile health (mHealth) intervention vs. conventional care was evaluated on clinical outcomes. Mobile health (mHealth) intervention improved clinical outcomes for diabetes and hypertension compared with conventional care across different economic levels (51 studies, N=13,054).