From: Effectiveness of IT-based diabetes management interventions: a review of the literature
Issue | Limitation |
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Design | |
 | No control group [28] |
 | Short duration of the intervention [[15], 1623] |
Sample | |
 | Small sample size [28] |
 | Sampling population restricted to patients who accessed hospital web page [30] |
Intervention effect | Unable to determine intervention component contributing to the observed change [23, 29] |
 | Unmeasured variable contributing to observed change [28] |
 | Possibility of increased attention to management contributing to observed change [19, 20] |
 | |
 | Concomitant exposure to another intervention [27] |
Participant dropout | Non-random participant dropout [19] |
 | Complete data not available for all participants [29] |