Table 2.
Overview of the interventions.
| Study | Message purpose | Time (postoperative days) | Opioids | Pain scale | Alerts | Reminders |
| Anthony et al [32] | Monitoring | 7 | yesa | 0-10 | no | yes |
| Anthony et al [33] | Monitoring | 14 | yes | 0-10 | no | no |
| Booth et al [36] | Monitoring | 60 | yes | 0-10 | yes | no |
| Brix et al [35] | Adherence/monitoring | 4 | no | 0-10 | yes | no |
| Carrier et al [37] | Monitoring | 7 | yesa | 0-10 | no | yes |
| Chen et al [38] | Monitoring | 14 | yesa | 0-10 | no | yes |
| Day et al [39] | Education/adherence | 14 | yesa | no | yes | no |
| Nelson et al [40] | Monitoring | 21 | yes | 0-10 | no | no |
| Newton and Sulman [41] | Education/adherence | 9 | yesa | no | yes | no |
| Premkumar et al [42] | Monitoring | 42 | yesa | 0-10 | no | no |
| Yahanda et al [34] | Adherence/monitoring | 15 | yesa | 0-9 | no | yes |
aNo specific information about the type of opioid used given.