Yasini Mobin, Marchand Guillaume
DMD santé, Research and development department, 51100, Reims, France.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015;216:127-31.
Health-related mobile applications (apps) have been shown to improve the quality of health and patient care. Their use in clinical and health-related environments is becoming more considerable. The number of health-related apps available for download has considerably increased, while the regulatory position of this new industry is not well known. Despite this lack of regulation, measuring the usability score of these apps is not difficult. We compared two samples of twenty health-related applications each. One of the samples contained the apps with top-rated usability scores, and the other contained the apps with lowest-rated usability scores. We found that a good usability score correlates with a better medical reliability of the app's content (p<0.005). In the period in which a valid regulation is still lacking, calculation and attribution of usability scores to mobile applications could be used to identify apps with better medical quality. However, the usability score method ought to be rigorous and should not be rounded off with a simple five stars rating (as is the case in the classic app stores).
与健康相关的移动应用程序(应用)已被证明可提高健康质量和患者护理水平。它们在临床及与健康相关的环境中的使用正变得越来越普遍。可供下载的与健康相关的应用数量大幅增加,而这个新行业的监管状况却鲜为人知。尽管缺乏监管,但衡量这些应用的可用性得分并不困难。我们比较了两个样本,每个样本包含二十个与健康相关的应用程序。其中一个样本包含可用性得分最高的应用,另一个样本包含可用性得分最低的应用。我们发现,良好的可用性得分与应用内容更好的医学可靠性相关(p<0.005)。在仍然缺乏有效监管的时期,计算移动应用的可用性得分并将其归因可用于识别医学质量更好的应用。然而,可用性得分方法应该严谨,不应简单地用五星评级来四舍五入(就像经典应用商店那样)。
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