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Educating Patients by Providing Timely Information Using Smartphone and Tablet Apps: Systematic Review.

Thomas TimmersLoes JanssenRudolf Bertijn KoolJan A M Kremer
Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2020)
This review demonstrates that educating patients with timely medical information through their smartphones or tablets improves their levels of knowledge, medication or treatment adherence, satisfaction, and clinical outcomes, as well as having a positive effect on health care economics. These effects are most pronounced in interventions with a short duration (ie, less than a month) and with a high frequency of messages to patients (ie, once per week or more). With the knowledge that patient education is a predictor for improved outcomes and the fact that patients have obvious difficulties processing large amounts of new medical information, we suggest incorporating the delivery of timely information through smartphone and tablet apps within current medical practices.
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