Evaluation Methods in Clinical Health Technologies: A Systematic Review

This study was conducted to classify the types of evaluation methods in clinical health technolo-gies based on a systematic review method.

An electronic search was conducted in three scientific databases including Scopus, PubMed and ISI. The search strategy was performed in Jul to Nov 2021 and based on the three main concepts of "evaluation", "technology", "health. This search has been restricted to 10 years (2011-2021). Moreover, it only was limited to English and papers published in journals and conferences proceeding.

Overall, 8149 references were identified for title and abstract screening. Full text screening was per-formed for 2674 articles, with 174 meeting the criteria for study inclusion.

Most of the technologies evaluated in these articles were associated with PC-based systems (N=107), and there have been fewer mobile apps (N=67). Most of used technologies were with goals of treat-ment (43%, N=74) and education (26%, N=45). Among all the methods, the most and the least used methods were usability (66%, N=115) and qualitative (1%, N=2) method, respectively. The most method for health clini-cal technologies is usability method especially in telemedicine field.