Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation: Quality ranking of 120 apps

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 128, Issue 1421, 2015, Pages 73-76

  Patel, Raja ^a   Sulzberger, Lucy ^a   Li, Grace ^a   Mair, Jonny ^a   Morley, Hannah ^a   Shing, Merryn Ng Wai ^a   O’Leary, Charlotte ^a   Prakash, Asha ^a   Robilliard, Nicholas ^a   Rutherford, Merrin ^a   Sharpe, Caitlin ^a   Shie, Caroline ^a   Sritharan, Logitha ^a   Turnbull, Julia ^a   Whyte, Imogen ^a   Yu, Helen ^a   Cleghorn, Christine ^a   Leung, William ^a   Wilson, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LETTER; MOBILE APP RATING SCALE; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOTIVATION; NEW ZEALAND; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; SMARTPHONE; SMOKING CESSATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NEW ZEALAND; SMARTPHONE; SMOKING CESSATION; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84952765105     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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