A Call to Digital Health Practitioners: New Guidelines Can Help Improve the Quality of Digital Health Evidence.

Smisha Agarwal Amnesty Elizabeth LeFevre Alain Bernard Labrique

Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2017)

The mERA checklist aims to assist authors in reporting on digital health research, guide reviewers and policymakers in synthesizing evidence, and guide journal editors in assessing the completeness in reporting on digital health studies. An increase in transparent and rigorous reporting can help identify gaps in the conduct of research and understand the effects of digital health interventions as a field of inquiry.

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