Can mobile health applications facilitate meaningful behavior change?: Time for answers

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 314, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1236-1237

  Eapen, Zubin J ^a   Peterson, Eric D ^a,b  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; MORTALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; TEXT MESSAGING; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; REMINDER SYSTEM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; REMINDER SYSTEMS; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84942287944     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.11067     Document Type: Editorial

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