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Design and development of a nutritional assessment application for smartphones and tablets with Android OS
Miguel Carnero Gregorio1, Montserrat Blanco Ramos2, Gerardo Andrés Obeso Carillo2
1Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología - Universidade de Vigo.. miguel.carnero.gregorio@hotmail.com.
Background & Aims:
To design and develop a nutritional application for smartphones and tablets with Android operating system for using to in- and outpatients that need a nutritional assessment. To check the validity of the results of such software.
Methods:
The application was compiled for version 2.1 of the Android operating system from Google. A cohort of 30 patients was included for evaluating the reliability of the application. The calculations were performed by staff of the Nutrition Unit of the Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, manually and through e-Nutrimet software on a smartphone and a tablet.
Results:
Concordance was absolute between results of different methods obtained using e-Nutrimet on a smartphone and a tablet (Fleiss index κ= 1). The same level of concordance was obtained by comparing handmade and e-Nutrimet made results.
Conclusions:
The degree of correlation is good, and it would be extended to all healthcare staff who wants to determine whether a patient has malnutrition, or not. The nutritional assessment software e-Nutrimet does not replace healthcare staff in any case, but could be an important aid in assessing patients who may be in risk of malnutrition, saving time of evaluation.
