To improve the completeness of reporting
of mobile health (mHealth) interventions, the WHO mHealth Technical
Evidence Review Group developed the mHealth evidence reporting and
assessment (mERA) checklist. The development process for mERA consisted
of convening an expert group to recommend an appropriate approach,
convening a global expert review panel for checklist development, and
pilot testing the checklist. The guiding principle for the development
of these criteria was to identify a minimum set of information needed to
define what the mHealth intervention is (content), where it is being
implemented (context), and how it was implemented (technical features),
to support replication of the intervention. This paper presents the
resulting 16 item checklist and a detailed explanation and elaboration
for each item, with illustrative reporting examples. Through widespread
adoption, we expect that the use of these guidelines will standardise
the quality of mHealth evidence reporting, and indirectly improve the
quality of mHealth evidence.
Summary points
To
improve the reporting of mobile health (mHealth) interventions, the WHO
mHealth Technical Evidence Review Group developed a checklist on
mHealth evidence reporting and assessment (mERA)
The
checklist aims to identify a minimum set of information needed to
define what the mHealth intervention is (content), where it is being
implemented (context), and how it was implemented (technical features),
to support replication of the intervention
Through
widespread adoption, these guidelines should standardise the quality of
mHealth evidence reporting, and indirectly improve the quality of
mHealth evidence
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