Use of wearable biometric monitoring devices to measure outcomes in randomized clinical trials: a methodological systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wearable biometric monitoring devices (BMDs) have the potential to transform the conduct of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) by shifting the collection of outcome data from single measurements at predefined time points to dense continuous measurements.

Methods

Methodological systematic review to understand how recent RCTs used BMDs to measure outcomes and to describe the reporting of these RCTs. Electronic search was performed in the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PubMed, and EMBASE and completed a page-by-page hand search in five leading medical journals between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2018. Three reviewers independently extracted all primary and secondary outcomes collected using BMDs, and assessed (1) the definitions used to summar

SUBMITTER: Grana Possamai C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7646072 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature