Demographic and health related data of users of a mobile application to support drug adherence is associated with usage duration and intensity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Becker, Stefan ^a,b   Brandl, Christopher ^c   Meister, Sven ^d   Nagel, Eckhard ^b   Miron Shatz, Talya ^e,f   Mitchell, Anna ^a   Kribben, Andreas ^a   Albrecht, Urs Vito ^g   Mertens, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^e Center for Medicine in the Public Interest   (United States)

^f ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG USE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MOBILE APPLICATION; PATIENT HISTORY OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922108529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116980     Document Type: Article

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