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dc.creatorJovičić, Snežana
dc.creatorSiodmiak, Joanna
dc.creatorWatson, Ian D.
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-02T12:10:06Z
dc.date.available2019-09-02T12:10:06Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn1434-6621
dc.identifier.urihttps://farfar.pharmacy.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3307
dc.description.abstractBackground: Many of the mobile applications (apps) used for delivering health interventions involve laboratory medicine data. This survey was conducted to search the online market for health apps that manage laboratory medicine data. The aim was to review them and perform a quality evaluation. Methods: Apps search criteria were "Lab results blood work", "Lab results", and "Health apps". After the stepwise exclusion process, 52 selected apps were downloaded and analyzed. For review and content analysis of the apps, a multidimensional tool for classifying and rating the quality of mobile health apps - Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS), was used. Results: Selected apps were classified into five categories according to their intended use by patients or physicians, and the type of data engaged. Spearman's correlation analysis found significant correlations between MARS individual scoring items, as with the subjective quality and number of technical aspects. Kruskal-Wallis analysis showed a significant difference in the number of technical aspects employed, MARS engagement and informational quality score items, total score, and subjective quality. The lowest values for all of these items were in the category of apps designed for patients, and the post hoc test showed that the difference was statistically significant between this and the values in all other categories. Conclusions: Apps designed for patients, are of the poorest quality, considering the total quality of the content and information they provide, estimated using the MARS tool. This estimation needs to be validated for laboratory medicine apps, and eventually modified after consideration of specific quality benchmarks.en
dc.publisherWalter de Gruyter Gmbh, Berlin
dc.rightsrestrictedAccess
dc.sourceClinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
dc.subjectappen
dc.subjectMobile App Rating Scale (MARS)en
dc.subjectmobile health applicationen
dc.subjectsmartphoneen
dc.titleQuality evaluation of smartphone applications for laboratory medicineen
dc.typearticle
dc.rights.licenseARR
dcterms.abstractСиодмиак, Јоанна; Wатсон, Иан Д.; Јовичић, Снежана;
dc.citation.volume57
dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.spage388
dc.citation.epage397
dc.citation.other57(3): 388-397
dc.citation.rankM21
dc.identifier.wos000460119400015
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/cclm-2018-0710
dc.identifier.pmid30496130
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85057625215
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion


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