Quality Assessment of Digital Health Applications: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

All over the world, development and usage of mobile health (mHealth) apps is increasing. While apps offer numerous opportunities to improve health care, there are associated problems that differ significantly from those of traditional health care services. Further investigations on the quality of mHealth apps are needed to address these problems.

Objective

This study aims to identify and map research on quality assessment and quality assurance of mHealth apps and their transferability to continuous quality assurance of mHealth apps.

Methods

The scoping review will follow published methodological frameworks for scoping studies as well as Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews criteria. Electronic data

SUBMITTER: Giebel GD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9350825 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature