Table 2.

Summary of studies focused on human factors (N=33).

Outcomes	Reviews, n (%)	Positive evidence	Negative or inconclusive evidence
Acceptability for managing chronic diseases	9 (27)	5 studies showing high acceptability of monitoring technology [106-110]	2 studies were inconclusive on monitoring acceptability [111,112] 2 studies were descriptive studies [17,113]
Acceptability of telerehabilitation	1 (3)	—a	One study was inconclusive on acceptability of monitoring in telerehabilitation [114]
Acceptability for home health monitoring	14 (42)	3 studies showing good acceptability of monitoring technologies [115-117]	2 studies showed inconclusive results on acceptability [105,118] 9 studies describing acceptability [36,119-126]
Costs	3 (9)	2 studies showed weak evidence that remote patient monitoring is cost-effective [127,128]	One study was inconclusive on cost-effectiveness of monitoring [129]
Ethics	3 (9)	—	3 descriptive studies on ethical frameworks for remote monitoring [37,39,130]
QoLb	3 (9)	1 study showed improved QoL with monitoring, though not by validated measures [32]	2 descriptive studies on QoL and social interaction with monitoring [131,132]

^aNot available.

^bQoL: quality of life.