{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2902737726","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","title":"How can clinicians, specialty societies and others evaluate and improve the quality of apps for patient use?","display_name":"How can clinicians, specialty societies and others evaluate and improve the quality of apps for patient use?","publication_year":2018,"publication_date":"2018-11-26","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2902737726","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","mag":"2902737726","pmid":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30501638","pmcid":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/6276222"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","pdf_url":"https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S135560524","display_name":"BMC Medicine","issn_l":"1741-7015","issn":["1741-7015"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","cwts-core","doaj","dongbi-c","doyens","jufo-2","ki-jl-2","medline","norway-2","oarl","poland-200","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320256","host_organization_name":"BioMed Central","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320256","https://openalex.org/P4310319965"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["BioMed Central","Springer Nature"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"BMC Medicine","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":["crossref","doaj","pubmed"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5015773823","display_name":"Jeremy C Wyatt","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7008-1473","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7008-1473"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I43439940","display_name":"University of Southampton","ror":"https://ror.org/01ryk1543","country_code":"GB","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I43439940"]}],"countries":["GB"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Jeremy C. Wyatt","raw_affiliation_strings":["Wessex Institute of Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 7NS, UK. j.c.wyatt@soton.ac.uk","Wessex Institute of Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 7NS, UK"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Wessex Institute of Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 7NS, UK. j.c.wyatt@soton.ac.uk","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I43439940"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Wessex Institute of Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 7NS, UK","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I43439940"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5015773823"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I43439940"],"apc_list":{"value":4190,"currency":"USD","value_usd":4190},"apc_paid":{"value":4190,"currency":"USD","value_usd":4190},"fwci":10.1173,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":61,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.985934,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":91,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"16","issue":"1","first_page":"225","last_page":"225"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11446","display_name":"Mobile Health and mHealth Applications","score":0.9980000257492065,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3600","display_name":"General Health Professions"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/36","display_name":"Health Professions"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11446","display_name":"Mobile Health and mHealth Applications","score":0.9980000257492065,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3600","display_name":"General Health Professions"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/36","display_name":"Health Professions"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11519","display_name":"Digital Mental Health Interventions","score":0.0006000000284984708,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3202","display_name":"Applied Psychology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/32","display_name":"Psychology"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14416","display_name":"Health, Technology, Consumer Behavior","score":0.00039999998989515007,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3605","display_name":"Health Information Management"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/36","display_name":"Health Professions"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mobile-health","display_name":"mobile health","score":0.6439999938011169},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/app-quality","display_name":"app quality","score":0.7329999804496765},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/app-evaluation","display_name":"app evaluation","score":0.6439999938011169},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/checklists","display_name":"checklists","score":0.699999988079071},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/patient-data-privacy","display_name":"patient data privacy","score":0.6439999938011169},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/app-regulation","display_name":"app regulation","score":0.703000009059906},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/app-developers","display_name":"app developers","score":0.3370000123977661},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/app-effectiveness","display_name":"application effectiveness","score":0.4050000011920929}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C71924100","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11190","display_name":"Medicine","level":0,"score":0.7427658438682556},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779530757","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1207505","display_name":"Quality (philosophy)","level":2,"score":0.7181581258773804},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C20387591","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q930752","display_name":"Specialty","level":2,"score":0.6223389506340027},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C108827166","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175975","display_name":"Internet privacy","level":1,"score":0.5987510085105896},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779794324","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3814081","display_name":"App store","level":2,"score":0.44815266132354736},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C160735492","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31207","display_name":"Health care","level":2,"score":0.44337916374206543},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C136764020","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466","display_name":"World Wide Web","level":1,"score":0.19123059511184692},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C512399662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3505712","display_name":"Family medicine","level":1,"score":0.1474561095237732},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.11294350028038025},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C50522688","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189833","display_name":"Economic growth","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[{"descriptor_ui":"D006801","descriptor_name":"Humans","qualifier_ui":null,"qualifier_name":null,"is_major_topic":false},{"descriptor_ui":"D011785","descriptor_name":"Quality Assurance, Health Care","qualifier_ui":null,"qualifier_name":null,"is_major_topic":true},{"descriptor_ui":"D012955","descriptor_name":"Societies, Medical","qualifier_ui":null,"qualifier_name":null,"is_major_topic":false},{"descriptor_ui":"D057189","descriptor_name":"Checklist","qualifier_ui":null,"qualifier_name":null,"is_major_topic":false},{"descriptor_ui":"D063731","descriptor_name":"Mobile Applications","qualifier_ui":null,"qualifier_name":null,"is_major_topic":true}],"locations_count":6,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","pdf_url":"https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S135560524","display_name":"BMC Medicine","issn_l":"1741-7015","issn":["1741-7015"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","cwts-core","doaj","dongbi-c","doyens","jufo-2","ki-jl-2","medline","norway-2","oarl","poland-200","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320256","host_organization_name":"BioMed Central","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320256","https://openalex.org/P4310319965"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["BioMed Central","Springer Nature"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"BMC Medicine","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:europepmc.org:5253948","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://europepmc.org/pmc/articles/PMC6276222","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400806","display_name":"Europe PMC (PubMed Central)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1303153112","host_organization_name":"European Bioinformatics Institute","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1303153112"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"other-oa","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/other-oa","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Text"},{"id":"pmh:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6276222","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/6276222","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764455111","display_name":"PubMed Central","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1299303238","host_organization_name":"National Institutes of Health","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1299303238"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"BMC Med","raw_type":"Text"},{"id":"pmid:30501638","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30501638","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306525036","display_name":"PubMed","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1299303238","host_organization_name":"National Institutes of Health","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1299303238"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"BMC medicine","raw_type":"Journal Article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:427123","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7>).","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401019","display_name":"ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I43439940","host_organization_name":"University of Southampton","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I43439940"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"acceptedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Review"},{"id":"pmh:oai:doaj.org/article:71ed6b79ae3b41b08d98ab74e175383f","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doaj.org/article/71ed6b79ae3b41b08d98ab74e175383f","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401280","display_name":"DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by-sa","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-sa","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"BMC Medicine, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2018)","raw_type":"article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","pdf_url":"https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12916-018-1211-7","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S135560524","display_name":"BMC Medicine","issn_l":"1741-7015","issn":["1741-7015"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","cwts-core","doaj","dongbi-c","doyens","jufo-2","ki-jl-2","medline","norway-2","oarl","poland-200","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320256","host_organization_name":"BioMed Central","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320256","https://openalex.org/P4310319965"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["BioMed Central","Springer Nature"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"BMC Medicine","raw_type":"journal-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"display_name":"Good health and well-being","score":0.9940000176429749,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/3"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2902737726.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2902737726.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":37,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1510413338","https://openalex.org/W1980681192","https://openalex.org/W2008825402","https://openalex.org/W2031827201","https://openalex.org/W2039119864","https://openalex.org/W2051483504","https://openalex.org/W2057902960","https://openalex.org/W2058315996","https://openalex.org/W2101764630","https://openalex.org/W2102560179","https://openalex.org/W2106506893","https://openalex.org/W2109031474","https://openalex.org/W2120522957","https://openalex.org/W2138935105","https://openalex.org/W2150664025","https://openalex.org/W2155053848","https://openalex.org/W2155682868","https://openalex.org/W2164176905","https://openalex.org/W2199971004","https://openalex.org/W2250397435","https://openalex.org/W2261289103","https://openalex.org/W2281090488","https://openalex.org/W2510814766","https://openalex.org/W2521913084","https://openalex.org/W2530268835","https://openalex.org/W2572274991","https://openalex.org/W2610339238","https://openalex.org/W2694642487","https://openalex.org/W2713286207","https://openalex.org/W2728194361","https://openalex.org/W2887807551","https://openalex.org/W2912405652","https://openalex.org/W2941010306","https://openalex.org/W2971794993","https://openalex.org/W2978846380","https://openalex.org/W2994039809","https://openalex.org/W4242780009"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W6921167123","https://openalex.org/W3109088505","https://openalex.org/W2199971004","https://openalex.org/W4381598392","https://openalex.org/W4400577888","https://openalex.org/W2036764578","https://openalex.org/W2741348510","https://openalex.org/W2739880848","https://openalex.org/W2710113251","https://openalex.org/W2034658175"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"BACKGROUND:":[0],"Health-related":[1],"apps":[2,88,189,195,218],"have":[3],"great":[4],"potential":[5],"to":[6,22,28,121,142,175,204,219],"enhance":[7],"health":[8,114],"and":[9,56,78,98,116,125,147,164,169,190,214,221],"prevent":[10],"disease":[11],"globally,":[12],"but":[13],"their":[14],"quality":[15,32,165,181,193],"currently":[16],"varies":[17],"too":[18],"much":[19],"for":[20,90,149],"clinicians":[21,213],"feel":[23],"confident":[24],"about":[25,68,86,208],"recommending":[26],"them":[27],"patients.":[29],"The":[30],"major":[31],"concerns":[33,85,124],"are":[34,83,105,178,225],"dubious":[35],"app":[36,69,117,128,159,223],"content,":[37],"loss":[38],"of":[39,45,59,136,194],"privacy":[40],"associated":[41,226],"with":[42,73,161,227],"widespread":[43],"sharing":[44],"the":[46,57,134,192],"patient":[47],"data":[48],"they":[49,177],"capture,":[50],"inaccurate":[51],"advice":[52],"or":[53],"risk":[54,163],"estimates":[55],"paucity":[58],"impact":[60],"studies.":[61],"This":[62,130],"may":[63],"explain":[64],"why":[65],"current":[66],"evidence":[67],"use":[70,91,135,220],"by":[71,92],"people":[72],"health-related":[74,87],"conditions":[75],"is":[76],"scanty":[77],"inconsistent.":[79],"MAIN":[80],"TEXT:":[81],"There":[82],"many":[84],"designed":[89],"patients,":[93],"such":[94,210],"as":[95,211],"poor":[96],"regulation":[97],"implicit":[99],"trust":[100],"in":[101,185,202],"technology.":[102],"However,":[103],"there":[104],"several":[106],"actions":[107],"that":[108,138],"various":[109],"stakeholders,":[110],"including":[111],"users,":[112],"developers,":[113],"professionals":[115],"distributors,":[118],"can":[119,139,154],"take":[120],"tackle":[122],"these":[123],"thus":[126],"improve":[127,191],"quality.":[129],"article":[131],"focuses":[132],"on":[133],"checklists":[137],"be":[140],"applied":[141],"apps,":[143,182,209],"novel":[144],"evaluation":[145],"methods":[146],"suggestions":[148],"how":[150,212],"clinical":[151],"specialty":[152],"organisations":[153],"develop":[155],"a":[156],"low-cost":[157],"curated":[158],"repository":[160],"explicit":[162],"criteria.":[166],"CONCLUSIONS:":[167],"Clinicians":[168],"professional":[170],"societies":[171],"must":[172,199],"act":[173],"now":[174],"ensure":[176],"using":[179],"good":[180],"support":[183],"patients":[184,215],"choosing":[186],"between":[187],"available":[188],"under":[196],"development.":[197],"Funders":[198],"also":[200],"invest":[201],"research":[203],"answer":[205],"important":[206],"questions":[207],"decide":[216],"which":[217,222],"factors":[224],"effectiveness.":[228]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":10},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":8},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":13},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":13},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":9}],"updated_date":"2026-11-04T10:54:05.112534","created_date":"2018-12-11T00:00:00"}