Department of Internal Medicine, West Penn Allegheny Health System, Pittsburgh, PA.
School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2019 Jan;100(1):115-127. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.07.439. Epub 2018 Aug 29.
To conduct systematic review to better define how medical mobile applications (apps) have been used in environments relevant to physical medicine and rehabilitation.
PUBMED, IEEE, ACM Digital Library, SCOPUS, INSPEC, and EMBASE.
A 10-year date limit was used, spanning publication dates from June 1, 2006, to June 30, 2016. Terms related to physical medicine and rehabilitation as well as mobile apps were used in 10 individual search strategies.
Two investigators screened abstracts and applied inclusion and exclusion criteria. Full-length articles were retrieved. Duplicate articles were removed. If a study met all criteria, the article was reviewed in full.
Specific variables of interest were extracted and added to summary tables. Summary tables were used to categorize studies according themes, and a list of app features was generated.
The search yielded abstracts from 8116 studies, and 102 studies were included in the systematic review. Approximately one-third of the studies evaluated apps as interventions, and the remaining two-thirds of the studies assessed functioning of the app or participant interaction with the app. Some apps may have positive benefits when used to deliver exercise or gait training interventions, as self-management systems, or as measurement tools.
The protocol was registered with the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) network (no. CRD42016046672).
系统综述以更好地定义医疗移动应用程序（apps）在物理医学与康复相关环境中的应用方式。
PubMed、IEEE、ACM 数字图书馆、Scopus、INSPEC 和 EMBASE。
使用了 10 年的时间限制，涵盖了 2006 年 6 月 1 日至 2016 年 6 月 30 日的出版日期。使用了 10 个独立的搜索策略来搜索与物理医学与康复以及移动应用程序相关的术语。
两名调查员筛选了摘要并应用了纳入和排除标准。检索了全文文章。删除了重复的文章。如果研究符合所有标准，则对文章进行全面审查。
提取了感兴趣的特定变量并添加到汇总表中。汇总表用于根据主题对研究进行分类，并生成了应用程序功能列表。
搜索产生了 8116 项研究的摘要，其中 102 项研究被纳入系统综述。大约三分之一的研究评估了应用程序作为干预措施，其余三分之二的研究评估了应用程序的功能或参与者与应用程序的交互。一些应用程序在用于提供运动或步态训练干预、自我管理系统或测量工具时可能具有积极的益处。
该方案在国际前瞻性系统评价注册库（PROSPERO）网络中进行了登记（编号：CRD42016046672）。
