SMS vs. Apps: Appendix
75+ RCTs of SMS and App interventions organized by condition + a regulatory primer on SMS in the United States.
Introduction and TOC
Part 1: The System
Part 2: What Does the Evidence Support?
Part 3: The Operating System
Appendix: 75+ RCTs by specialty and the 4 SMS regulations
This document is meant to be an actionable artifact for builders.
Primary (numbered) references are cited inline in the body; Supplemental references in each specialty section are additional reading.
These are organized by specialty rather than alphabetical order or the sequence in which they appear in the text.
Many of the references below are open-access and freely available. Others sit behind academic subscription paywalls. For paywalled papers, Google Scholar is the best place to start; it often surfaces a PDF or preprint via an institutional repository or author’s homepage. PubMed Central (PMC) holds full text for NIH-funded work after the 12-month embargo. When all that fails, sci-hub.ru remains a working option for readers who choose to use it.
