Due to necessary scheduled maintenance, the JMIR Publications website will be unavailable from Wednesday, July 01, 2020 at 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Who will be affected?
Readers: No access to all 28 journals. We recommend accessing our articles via PubMed Central
Authors: No access to the submission form or your user account.
Reviewers: No access to your user account. Please download manuscripts you are reviewing for offline reading before Wednesday, July 01, 2020 at 7:00 PM.
Editors: No access to your user account to assign reviewers or make decisions.
Copyeditors: No access to user account. Please download manuscripts you are copyediting before Wednesday, July 01, 2020 at 7:00 PM.
Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.
Using grey literature when evaluating effectiveness in digital health and health and welfare technology: a source worth considering
Sara Landerdahl Stridsberg;
Matt X Richardson;
Ken Redekop;
Maria Ehn;
Sarah Wamala Andersson
ABSTRACT
The need for assessing the effectiveness and value of interventions involving digital health and/or health and welfare technology is becoming more important, due to the rapidly growing development of these technologies and their areas of application. Systematic reviews gather the available evidence based on published articles and make it accessible to researchers, practitioners, decision makers and policy makers. A thorough and systematic search in several bibliographic databases is essential when reviewing literature. But should publications outside the realm of traditional publication databases - known as grey literature – also be included? Can grey literature contribute to broaden the results of the review and how systematic can you be when searching for it
Citation
Please cite as:
Landerdahl Stridsberg S, Richardson MX, Redekop K, Ehn M, Wamala Andersson S
Gray Literature in Evaluating Effectiveness in Digital Health and Health and Welfare Technology: A Source Worth Considering