mHealth in urology: A review of experts' involvement in app development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Pereira Azevedo, Nuno ^a,c   Carrasquinho, Eduardo ^b   De Oliveira, Eduardo Cardoso ^b   Cavadas, Vitor ^c   Osório, Luís ^c   Fraga, Avelino ^c   Castelo Branco, Miguel ^a   Roobol, Monique J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^b Hospital EPE Espirito Santo   (Portugal)

^c Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar   (Portugal)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; DEVICE APPROVAL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PEER REVIEW; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; UROLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TELEMEDICINE;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; TELEMEDICINE; UROLOGY;

EID: 84930681437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125547     Document Type: Article

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