Source: mobihealthnews.com

The U.S. National Institutes of Health has an online database called ClinicalTrials.gov that includes a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials underway or completed. The database currently boasts more than 81,000 clinical trials from some 170 countries. As you might expect a couple dozen of those trials are testing wireless health solutions — mostly mobile phone applications — and their efficacy on health outcomes. MobiHealthNews rounded up 10 mobile phone-equipped clinical trials conducted by numerous academic institutions, world governments and big brand healthcare companies like AstraZeneca.

#1

United Kingdom: A Mobile Phone Based Structured Intervention to Achieve Asthma Control in Patients With Uncontrolled Persistent Asthma: Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial

#2

Australia: A Randomised Controlled Trial Investigating a Mobile Phone Self-Monitoring Tool (Mobiletype) to Increase Emotional Self-Awareness and Reduce Depressive Symptoms in Young People.

#3

Austria: Bacterial Contamination of Anaesthetists’ Hands by Personal Mobile Phones Used in the Operating Theatre

#4

United Kingdom: A Multinational, Randomised Study of the Efficacy of the Diabetes Interactive Diary (DID), a Carbohydrates/Insulin Bolus Calculator and a Telemedicine System Based on the Communication Between Physician or Dietitian and Patient by SMS

#5

United Kingdom: Assessment of the Clinical Efficacy and Acceptability of the Think Positive (T+) Diabetes Management System in Insulin Requiring Diabetes

#6

Denmark: Assessment of the Health Related Effects of Compliance Optimization in Asthma Through Use of SMS (Short Message System) – A Controlled Trial

#7

USA: Text Messaging for Abstinence and HIV Risk Prevention: The 411 on Safe Text

#8

Spain: Effect of Daily SMS Reminders on Medication Adherence to Oral Antipsychotics in Patients With Schizophrenia

#9

Kenya: A Targeted Cell Phone Intervention to Improve Patient Access to Care and Drug Adherence in Patients Taking Antiretroviral (ARV) Medications in Kenya

#10

India: The Role of Information Technology in the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes

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