Assessing the quality of mobile applications in chronic disease management: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT: While there has been a rapid growth of digital health apps to support chronic diseases, clear standards on how to best evaluate the quality of these evolving tools are absent. This scoping review aims to synthesize the emerging field of mobile health app quality assessment by reviewing criteria used by previous studies to assess the quality of mobile apps for chronic disease management. A literature review was conducted in September 2017 for published studies that use a set of quality criteria to directly evaluate two or more patient-facing apps supporting promote chronic disease management. This resulted in 8182 citations which were reviewed by research team members, resulting in 65 articles for inclusion. An inductive coding schema to synthesize the quality criteria utilized by included

SUBMITTER: Agarwal P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7946941 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature