Electronic Health Record-Based Recruitment and Retention and Mobile Health App Usage: Multisite Cohort Study.
Janelle W CoughlinLindsay M MartinDi ZhaoAttia A GoheerThomas B WoolfKatherine HolzhauerHarold P LehmannMichelle R LentKathleen M McTigueJeanne M ClarkWendy L BennettPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2022)
EHR recruitment offers an efficient (ie, high reach, low touch, and minimal participant burden) approach to recruiting participants from health care settings into mHealth research. Efforts to recruit and retain less engaged subgroups are needed to collect more generalizable data. Additionally, future app iterations should include more evidence-based features to increase participant use.