RT Journal Article
T1 mHealth: a strategic field without a solid scientific soul. A systematic review of pain-related apps
A1 De la Vega, Rocío
A1 Miró, Jordi
K1 Dolor
AB Background: Mobile health (mHealth) has undergone exponential growth in recent years. Patients and healthcareprofessionals are increasingly using health-related applications, at the same time as concerns about ethical issues, bias,conflicts of interest and privacy are emerging. The general aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state ofdevelopment of mHealth.Methods and Findings: To exemplify the issues, we made a systematic review of the pain-related apps available in scientificdatabases (Medline, Web of Science, Gale, Psycinfo, etc.) and the main application shops (App Store, Blackberry App World,Google Play, Nokia Store and Windows Phone Store). Only applications (designed for both patients and clinicians) focusedon pain education, assessment and treatment were included. Of the 47 papers published on 34 apps in scientific databases,none were available in the app shops. A total of 283 pain-related apps were found in the five shops searched, but no articleshave been published on these apps. The main limitation of this review is that we did not look at all stores in all countries.Conclusions: There is a huge gap between the scientific and commercial faces of mHealth. Specific efforts are needed tofacilitate knowledge translation and regulate commercial health-related apps
PB PLOS ONE
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36671
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36671
LA eng
NO De la Vega, R., Miró, J. (2014). mHealth: a strategic field without a solid scientific soul. A systematic review of pain-related apps. PLOS ONE, 9(7), e101312. PMID: 24999983. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101312
NO This work was partly funded by grants PSI2009-12193PSIC-MICINN, PSI2012-32471, AGAUR (2009 SGR 434) and PFR-URV. RdlV is supported by a doctoral grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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