The Cross-sectional Study on the Quality Evaluation Criteria of mHealth APP

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Authors
Wang Q1, Lai H2, Guo T2, Xiao Y2, Ge L1
1Evidence-Based Social Science Research Center, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University
2Department of Social Science and Health Management, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University
Abstract
Background: With the rapid development of wireless communication technology and the popularity of mobile phones, mobile medicine provides a platform for patients to receive personalized medical services and real-time and convenient communication in recent years. Mobile medicine has been widely used in our daily life. Using mobile medicine technology to help people's health has become a hot spot. The number of applications of mobile medicine has already popular all around the world, but the criterion of quality evaluation is unknown.
Objectives: To investigate the tools or checklists of quality evaluation for mobile medicine APP.

Methods: We searched PubMed, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Cochrane Library to collect systematic reviews and meta-analysis about mobile medicine as fully as possible. We included mobile medicine, telemedicine, e-health, criterion, quality evaluation and extracted the first author, year of publication, name of the application, the standard of quality evaluation and so on. The literature screening and data extraction carried out by four reviewers independently by using EndNote software. Any conflicts in the results are discussed after careful discussion. Statistical analyses will be conducted with SPSS 24.0.

Results: This study is ongoing and results will be presented at the Cochrane Colloquium as available.

Conclusions: This study is ongoing and results will be presented at the Cochrane Colloquium as available.

Patient or healthcare consumer involvement: No applicable.