Understanding factors affecting patient and public engagement and recruitment to digital health interventions: A systematic review of qualitative studies

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  O'Connor, Siobhan ^a,b   Hanlon, Peter ^a   O'Donnell, Catherine A ^a   Garcia, Sonia ^c   Glanville, Julie ^c   Mair, Frances S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barrier; Digital health; eHealth; Electronic health records; Engagement; Facilitator; mHealth; Mobile applications; Recruitment; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; CINAHL; DATA EXTRACTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD; EMBASE; ENGLISH (LANGUAGE); HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INVESTMENT; MEDLINE; MINING; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOTIVATION; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; SCOPUS; SCREENING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TELEMEDICINE; THEORETICAL MODEL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84987899121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-016-0359-3     Document Type: Review

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