Zhang Melvyn W B, Ho Roger C M
Centre for Healthcare Innovation & Medical Engineering, Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology (BIGHEART), National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Technol Health Care. 2017;25(2):373-375. doi: 10.3233/THC-161287.
Smartphones and their accompanying applications are currently widely utilized in various healthcare interventions. Prior to the deployment of these tools for healthcare intervention, typically, proof of concept feasibility studies, as well as randomized trials are conducted to determine that these tools are efficacious prior to their actual implementation. In the field of psychiatry, most of the current interventions seek to compare smartphone based intervention against conventional care. There remains a paucity of research evaluating different forms of interventions using a single smartphone application. In the field of nutrition, there has been recent pioneering research demonstrating how a multi-phasic randomized controlled trial could be conducted using a single smartphone application. Despite the innovativeness of the previous smartphone conceptualization, there remains a paucity of technical information underlying the conceptualization that would support a multi-phasic interventional trial. It is thus the aim of the current technical note to share insights into an innovative server design that would enable the delivery of multi-phasic trials.
智能手机及其附带的应用程序目前在各种医疗保健干预措施中得到广泛应用。在将这些工具用于医疗保健干预之前，通常会进行概念验证可行性研究以及随机试验，以确定这些工具在实际实施之前是否有效。在精神病学领域，目前大多数干预措施旨在将基于智能手机的干预与传统护理进行比较。评估使用单个智能手机应用程序的不同形式干预措施的研究仍然很少。在营养领域，最近有开创性研究表明如何使用单个智能手机应用程序进行多阶段随机对照试验。尽管之前的智能手机概念化具有创新性，但支持多阶段干预试验的概念化背后的技术信息仍然很少。因此，本技术说明的目的是分享对一种创新服务器设计的见解，该设计将能够进行多阶段试验。
