Table 1.

Iterative eligibility criteria

	Exclusion Criteria	Inclusion Criteria
First screen	Telephone or email was used for survey or trial recruitment purposes	Electronic health records that allow access by caregivers
	Acute diseases and other conditions not requiring follow-up, including vaccinations	Patient or caregiver use of HIT in settings other than the home, including emergency departments (EDs) or health care provider offices
	HIT used for epidemiological or public health purposes
	Telemedicine applications where communication was entirely among health care providers
	Prenatal patients
Second screen	No communication that involved both caregiver and health care provider	Telephone triage services
	No electronic technology used to communicate	Computer kiosks in health care settings
	Communication while parties were face-to-face
Third screen	Telephone triage services not explicitly dedicated to chronic diseases or conditions requiring follow-up	Studies of healthy patients, provided the HIT intervention was intended for chronic disease
	Large programs of which telephone was only a small element