JMIR J Med Internet Res Journal of Medical Internet Research 1438-8871 Gunther Eysenbach Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Toronto, Canada v8i2e11 16867966 10.2196/jmir.8.2.e11 Letter Health Care Interventions Delivered Over the Internet: How Systematic was the Review? Mayo-Wilson Evan
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Apr-Jun 2006 30 6 2006 8 2 e11 27 06 2006 30 06 2006 © Evan Mayo-Wilson. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 30.6.2005. Except where otherwise noted, articles published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, including full bibliographic details and the URL (see "please cite as" above), and this statement is included. 2005 Griffiths F Lindenmeyer A Powell J Lowe P Thorogood M Why Are Health Care Interventions Delivered Over the Internet? A Systematic Review of the Published Literature J Med Internet Res 2006 6 23 7 2 e10 Griffiths Frances Health Care Interventions Delivered Over the Internet: How Systematic was the Review? - Author's Reply J Med Internet Res 2006 6 30 8 2 e12 <p>I found the title and description of the recent review by Griffiths et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>] misleading. The authors describe their paper as "a systematic review". However, the article fails to cite several published (and indexed) trials of internet-delivered therapy (e.g. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>]). The search strategy and inclusion criteria were neither transparent nor replicable. The authors note that they did not "set out to identify every published eHealth intervention paper" yet give no reason to believe that the sample obtained is representative of the population of studies being reviewed.</p> </sec> </body> <back> <ref-list> <ref id="ref1"> <label>1</label> <nlm-citation citation-type="journal" xlink:type="simple"> <person-group person-group-type="author"> <name name-style="western"> <surname>Griffiths</surname> <given-names>F</given-names> </name> <name name-style="western"> <surname>Lindenmeyer</surname> <given-names>A</given-names> </name> <name name-style="western"> <surname>Powell</surname> <given-names>J</given-names> </name> <name name-style="western"> <surname>Lowe</surname> <given-names>P</given-names> </name> <name name-style="western"> <surname>Thorogood</surname> <given-names>M</given-names> </name> </person-group> <article-title>Why Are Health Care Interventions Delivered Over the Internet? A Systematic Review of the Published Literature</article-title> <source>J Med Internet Res</source> <year>2006</year> <month>6</month> <day>23</day> <volume>7</volume> <issue>2</issue> <fpage>e10</fpage> <comment><ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="http://www.jmir.org/2006/2/e10/" ext-link-type="uri">http://www.jmir.org/2006/2/e11/</ext-link></comment> <pub-id pub-id-type="pii">v8i2e10</pub-id> <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2196/jmir.8.2.e10</pub-id> </nlm-citation> </ref> <ref id="ref2"> <label>2</label> <nlm-citation citation-type="journal" xlink:type="simple"> <person-group person-group-type="author"> <name name-style="western"> <surname>Klein</surname> <given-names>Britt</given-names> </name> <name name-style="western"> <surname>Richards</surname> <given-names>Jeffery C</given-names> </name> </person-group> <article-title>A Brief Internet-based Treatment for Panic Disorder</article-title> <source>Behav Cog Psychother</source> <year>2001</year> <month>03</month> <day>06</day> <volume>29</volume> <issue>1</issue> <fpage>113</fpage> <lpage>117</lpage> <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1017/S1352465801001138</pub-id> </nlm-citation> </ref> </ref-list> </back> </article>