Quality evaluation of smartphone applications for laboratory medicine
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2019
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Background: 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 sig...nificant 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.
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app / Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) / mobile health application / smartphoneИзвор:
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 2019, 57, 3, 388-397Издавач:
- Walter de Gruyter Gmbh, Berlin
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2018-0710
ISSN: 1434-6621
PubMed: 30496130
WoS: 000460119400015
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85057625215
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PharmacyTY - JOUR AU - Jovičić, Snežana AU - Siodmiak, Joanna AU - Watson, Ian D. PY - 2019 UR - https://farfar.pharmacy.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3307 AB - Background: 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. PB - Walter de Gruyter Gmbh, Berlin T2 - Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine T1 - Quality evaluation of smartphone applications for laboratory medicine VL - 57 IS - 3 SP - 388 EP - 397 DO - 10.1515/cclm-2018-0710 ER -
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Jovičić, S., Siodmiak, J.,& Watson, I. D.. (2019). Quality evaluation of smartphone applications for laboratory medicine. in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine Walter de Gruyter Gmbh, Berlin., 57(3), 388-397. https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2018-0710
Jovičić S, Siodmiak J, Watson ID. Quality evaluation of smartphone applications for laboratory medicine. in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. 2019;57(3):388-397. doi:10.1515/cclm-2018-0710 .
Jovičić, Snežana, Siodmiak, Joanna, Watson, Ian D., "Quality evaluation of smartphone applications for laboratory medicine" in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 57, no. 3 (2019):388-397, https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2018-0710 . .