Apps in General Medicine. A topic formedical education?
Apps in General Medicine. A topic formedical education?
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DOI：
10.1007/s00108-019-0568-9
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2019-04-01
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Raupach, T.
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Long, S.;Hasenfuss, G.;Raupach, T.
与健康相关的应用程序可以为医生和患者提供有用的资源。选择潜在有用的应用程序和评估其质量在医学背景下特别重要，因为虚假或令人困惑的应用程序内容可能会使患者处于危险之中。医学生对143个健康中心的质量进行了测试和评估，材料和方法使用半自动回顾性应用程序商店分析（SARASA）方法，从超过2个的库中识别出一组与心脏病学和肺病学有关的应用程序，Apple Store中有100，000个应用程序。作为apractical演习的一部分，138 4年级医学生测试了143个这些应用程序，随后评估他们使用aespecially designed questionnaire. ResultsThe最常见的目标人群之间的测试应用程序被确定为患者和他们的照顾者和在大多数情况下的主要目的是提供信息。尽管如此，至少有四分之一的测试应用程序需要用户输入敏感的健康相关信息。学生们的评价描绘了一个很大的范围在测试的应用程序的质量方面。讨论健康相关的应用程序在内科领域的疾病管理中发挥着越来越大的作用。医生必须意识到使用这些应用程序的好处和局限性，并应在医学研究期间准备好为患者提供有关此主题的建议。
BackgroundHealth-related apps can provide helpful resources for both doctors and patients. The selection of potentially useful apps and the appraisal of their quality are particularly important in the context of medicine as false or confusing app content may put patients at risk.AimIn this article abrief overview of the topic is provided and the results of apilot study, in which medical students tested and evaluated the quality of 143 health-related apps on the topics of cardiology and pulmonology are presented.Material and methodsUsing the semiautomated retrospective app store analysis (SARASA) method, agroup of apps concerned with cardiology and pulmonology were identified from apool of over 2,000,000 apps available in the Apple Store. As part of apractical exercise, 138 4thyear medical students tested atotal of 143 of these apps, subsequently evaluating them using aspecially devised questionnaire.ResultsThe most frequent target population among the tested apps was identified as patients and their carers and the primary purpose in the majority of cases was the provision of information. Despite this, at least one quarter of all apps tested required users to enter sensitive health-related information. The evaluations by the students portrayed alarge range in terms of the quality of the apps tested.DiscussionHealth-related apps play agrowing role in the management of illnesses in the field of internal medicine. Doctors must be aware of the benefits and limitations of using such apps and should be prepared during their medical studies for the challenge of advising patients on this topic.