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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2020

A Research on the Classification and Applicability of the Mobile Health Applications.

Ivan Miguel Pires, Gonçalo Marques, Nuno M Garcia, Francisco Flórez-Revuelta, Vasco Ponciano, Salome Oniani

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05102968 (Using a Mobile APP to Support Home-based Rehabilitation for Patients With Rotator Cuff Tear After Arthroscopic Repair), which is not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05102968 narecruitingnot on this map

Using a Mobile APP to Support Home-based Rehabilitation for Patients With Rotator Cuff Tear After Arthroscopic Repair

TypeinterventionalSponsorKaohsiung Veterans General Hospital.Ran2019 to 2026Enrolled60ConditionsRotator Cuff TearsArmsHome-based rehabilitation supporting with the mobile application, Supervised rehabilitation by the therapist
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ivan Miguel PiresInstituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-3394-6762
Gonçalo MarquesInstituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-5834-6571
Nuno M GarciaInstituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-3195-3168
Francisco Flórez-RevueltaDepartment of Computer Technology, Universidad de Alicante, , P.O. Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain.
Vasco PoncianoR&D Unit in Digital Services, Applications, and Content, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-767 Castelo Branco, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-9317-5250
Salome OnianiGeorgian Technical University, 0160 Tbilisi, Georgia.

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia UIDB/EEA/50008/2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mobile health applications are applied for different purposes. Healthcare professionals and other users can use this type of mobile applications for specific tasks, such as diagnosis, information, prevention, treatment, and communication. This paper presents an analysis of mobile health applications used by healthcare professionals and their patients. A secondary objective of this article is to evaluate the scientific validation of these mobile health applications and to verify if the results provided by these applications have an underlying sound scientific foundation. This study also analyzed literature references and the use of mobile health applications available in online application stores. In general, a large part of these mobile health applications provides information about scientific validation. However, some mobile health applications are not validated. Therefore, the main contribution of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the usability and user-perceived quality of mobile health applications and the challenges related to scientific validation of these mobile applications.

Indexed as

diagnosisdiseaseshealthcare professionalsmobile applicationsmobile computingmobile healthtreatment

Identifiers

PMID32120849
PMCPMC7151562

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