Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using E-health Technologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Technological advances have provided innovative, adaptive, and responsive models of care for inflammatory bowel diseases [IBD]. We conducted a systematic review to compare e-health interventions with standard care in management of IBD.

Methods

We searched electronic databases for randomised, controlled trials [RCT] comparing e-health interventions with standard care for patients with IBD. Effect measures were standardised mean difference [SMD], odds ratio [OR], or rate ratio [RR], calculated using the inverse variance or Mantel-Haenszel statistical method and random-effects models. Version 2 of the Cochrane tool was used to assess the risk of bias. The certainty of evidence was appraised with the GRADE framework.

Results

Fourteen RCTs [n = 3111; 17

SUBMITTER: Kuriakose Kuzhiyanjal AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10637047 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature