Mobile Phone Apps to Improve Medication Adherence: A Systematic Stepwise Process to Identify High-Quality Apps.

Karla Santo Sarah S Richtering John Chalmers Aravinda Thiagalingam Clara Kayei Chow Julie Redfern

Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2016)

Many medication reminder apps are available in the app stores; however, the majority of them did not have many of the desirable features and were, therefore, considered low quality. Through a systematic stepwise process, we were able to identify high-quality apps to be tested in a future study that will provide evidence on the use of medication reminder apps to improve medication adherence.

Keyphrases

healthcare
adverse drug
quality improvement
current status