"一个应用程序只是随时可用"-将格鲁吉亚结核病参考指南转换为移动应用程序的过程和结果
Santiago J Arconada Alvarez1,2, Alison T Hoover1,3, Morgan Greenleaf1,2
1Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
PloS one
|May 16, 2024
概括
将格鲁吉亚结核病参考指南转换为移动应用程序提高了结核病 (TB) 临床指南的可访问性和可用性. 数字格式显示,90%的用户更喜欢纸质版本,这表明需要更新结核病诊断和治疗资源.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 移动健康 (mHealth) 服务提供商
- 传染病管理 传染病管理
背景情况:
- 乔治亚结核病参考指南是结核病 (TB) 诊断和治疗的纸质手册,由于印刷成本高,信息过时而面临挑战.
- 为了克服这些局限性,该指南被转换为一个移动应用程序,以提高可访问性和方便更新.
研究的目的:
- 描述乔治亚结核病参考指南的移动应用程序版本的开发过程.
- 为结核病管理创建一个易于更新和易于使用的临床参考工具.
主要方法:
- 采用以用户为中心的设计方法,涉及对结核病专家和国家官员进行定性访谈和定量调查.
- 应用程序的设计是根据用户反通过测试进行代精细化.
- 发布后,用户增长,人口统计和应用程序使用量都通过应用程序内数据指标进行了跟踪.
主要成果:
- 用户反导致了诸如主题优先级,定制选项 (书签,笔记),可读性改进和增强的搜索功能等功能.
- 与纸质指南相比,移动应用程序显示了90%的用户偏好.
- 在六个月内,该应用程序被下载了281次,使用范围超越佐治亚州,扩展到其他19个州.
结论:
- 转换过程提供了一个可复制的模型,用于将静态的医学参考指南转换为动态的移动应用程序.
- 该应用程序的广泛采用凸显了医疗保健专业人员对可访问的数字结核病临床资源的需求.
- 这一举措强调了移动医疗参考工具在公共卫生中的重要实用性.
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