开展与健康相关主题的商用移动应用程序 (APP) 的系统审查和评估:TECH方法和一步一步的方法指南
Norina Gasteiger1,2, Dawn Dowding3, Gill Norman3
1Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK norina.gasteiger@manchester.ac.uk.
BMJ open
|June 12, 2023
概括
本研究概述了进行移动健康 (mHealth) 应用程序审查的七个严格步骤,引入了TECH框架以改进研究问题和更好的应用程序评估的资格标准.
科学领域:
- 数字健康数字健康
- 医疗信息学医学信息学
- 医疗服务研究 医疗服务研究
背景情况:
- 商业移动健康 (mHealth) 应用程序越来越普遍,需要标准化的方法来评估它们.
- 现有的mHealth应用程序的审查在方法上有所不同,这会影响研究结果的可靠性和可比性.
- 高质量的评估对于理解移动健康环境和指导应用程序开发和采用至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为进行商业移动健康应用程序的系统审查提供方法概述.
- 系统化mHealth应用程序审查的过程,以支持高质量的评估.
- 引入一个框架来制定审查问题和资格标准.
主要方法:
- 综合一个研究团队在进行mHealth应用程序审查方面的经验.
- 在领先的医学信息学期刊中进行手动搜索,以获得相关的应用程序评论 (2018-2022年).
- 制定一个七步过程,对健康应用程序进行严格的审查,包括TECH框架.
主要成果:
- 介绍了进行健康应用程序审查的七步方法,涵盖了从问题制定到结合发现的方法.
- 新的TECH (目标用户,评估重点,连接,健康领域) 框架被引入,用于开发审查问题和资格标准.
- 突出了患者和公众参与应用程序审查流程的机会.
结论:
- 拟议的七步过程和TECH框架提高了mHealth应用程序审查的严格性.
- 系统审查为mHealth应用市场的可用性,质量和功能提供了宝贵的见解.
- 未来的工作重点是制定报告准则和系统应用程序审查的质量评估工具.
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