Healthcare "Apps" for Smartphones: Relief or toy for patients and the visual impaired?;Apps für Smartphones im Gesundheitsbereich: Erleichterung oder Spielerei für Patienten und Sehbehinderte?

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-29

  Meyer, C H ^a,b   Stanzel, B V ^a   Moqaddem, S ^c   Brohlburg, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Klinik Pallas   (Switzerland)

^c PRO RETINA Regionalgruppe Bonn   (Germany)

Author keywords

"App"; Medical "Apps"; Reading test; Smartphones; Usability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERNET; MICROCOMPUTER; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT EDUCATION; STATISTICS; TELEMEDICINE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VISUAL DISORDER;

CELLULAR PHONE; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; HUMANS; INTERNET; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SOFTWARE; TELEMEDICINE; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 84856253738     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00347-011-2426-6     Document Type: Article

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