User Profiles of a Smartphone Application to Support Drug Adherence - Experiences from the iNephro Project

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Becker, Stefan ^a,b   Kribben, Andreas ^b   Meister, Sven ^c   Diamantidis, Clarissa Jonas ^d   Unger, Nicole ^a   Mitchell, Anna ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST)   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; TELEMEDICINE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION STUDY; GERMANY; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MOBILE APPLICATION; UTILIZATION;

CELL PHONES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84886051817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078547     Document Type: Article

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