Table 3.

Topic of reviewed randomized controlled trials of electronic symptom reporting, by patient’s location at time of symptom reporting and main communication partner^a.

Main communication partner	Location of patient
	Inside health care institution	Outside health care institution (at home)
Unclear	0	1 study: lung diseases [65]b
Physician at hospital	3 studies: cancer [45] + [48]; psychiatry [49]	1 study: cardiovascular [63]
Physician and nurse	3 studies: cancer [44,78]c + [46] + [47]	0
General practitioner or primary care physician	0	1 study: cardiovascular [62]
Psychologist	0	5 studies: psychiatry [75] + [69]d + [70] + [71]d + [72]
Nurse	0	9 studies: cancer [51,79]c; asthma [58,80]c + [52,53] + [56]; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [59,60] + [61] + [68]; cardiovascular [64]; mixed [50]
CTFe only	0	1 study: lung diseases [66]
CTF and physician	0	2 studies: asthma [55] + [57]
CTF and nurse	0	3 studies: asthma [67] + [54]; diabetes [73,74]

^a Articles were identified in a comprehensive search in Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and IEEE Xplore from 1990 to November 2011, and were published in the time period 2002–2011.

^b Patients communicated with a transplant team, a transplant provider, a coordinator, and a transplant coordinator at the hospital. The professions of these actors are not clearly defined [65].

^c Articles 78, 79, and 80 were deemed not to be relevant, but included information necessary to understand the study in question.

^d Conducted mainly by students [69,71] under the supervision of a more experienced or senior psychologist.

^e Computer-tailored feedback.