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T1 Mobile health apps for medical emergencies: systematic review
A1 Plaza Roncero, Alejandro
A1 Marques, Gonçalo
A1 Sainz de Abajo, Beatriz
A1 Martín Rodríguez, Francisco
A1 Pozo Vegas, Carlos del
A1 García Zapirain, Begoña
A1 Torre Díez, Isabel de la
K1 Mobile health
K1 Medical emergencies
AB Background: Mobile health apps are used to improve the quality of health care. These apps are changing the current scenario in health care, and their numbers are increasing.Objective: We wanted to perform an analysis of the current status of mobile health technologies and apps for medical emergencies. We aimed to synthesize the existing body of knowledge to provide relevant insights for this topic. Moreover, we wanted to identify common threads and gaps to support new challenging, interesting, and relevant research directions.Methods: We reviewed the main relevant papers and apps available in the literature. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology was used in this review. The search criteria were adopted using systematic methods to select papers and apps. On one hand, a bibliographic review was carried out in different search databases to collect papers related to each application in the health emergency field using defined criteria. On the other hand, a review of mobile appsin two virtual storage platforms (Google Play Store and Apple App Store) was carried out. The Google Play Store and Apple App Store are related to the Android and iOS operating systems, respectively.Results: In the literature review, 28 papers in the field of medical emergency were included. These studies were collected and selected according to established criteria. Moreover, we proposed a taxonomy using six groups of applications. In total, 324 mobile apps were found, with 192 identified in the Google Play Store and 132 identified in the Apple App Store.Conclusions: We found that all apps in the Google Play Store were free, and 73 apps in the Apple App Store were paid, with the price ranging from US $0.89 to US $5.99. Moreover, 39% (11/28) of the included studies were related to warning systems for emergency services and 21% (6/28) were associated with disaster management apps.
PB JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC.
SN 2291-5222
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67946
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67946
LA eng
NO JMIR mHealth and uHealth, Diciembre 2020, vol. 8, n. 12. p. e18513-e18526
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 23-jun-2024