Health Care Interventions Delivered Over the Internet: How Systematic was the Review? - Author's Reply
2006
Response to Review on Internet Health Care Interventions
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Author Information
Author(s): Frances Griffiths
Primary Institution: Centre for Primary Health Care Studies, Warwick Medical School
Conclusion
The authors acknowledge that their review was not exhaustive but aimed to identify key literature on Internet health care interventions using systematic methods.
Supporting Evidence
- The review was not a systematic review in the traditional sense.
- The authors used systematic methods to identify literature but did not aim for exhaustiveness.
- They employed triangulation of search approaches to find relevant studies.
Takeaway
The authors looked at health care interventions online but didn't check every single study out there; they focused on the most important ones.
Methodology
The authors used systematic methods to conduct a qualitative review of literature on Internet health care interventions.
Limitations
The review may not have identified every relevant published paper.
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