A mobile application improves therapy-adherence rates in elderly patients undergoing rehabilitation A crossover design study comparing documentation via iPad with paper-based control

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 36, 2016, Pages

  Mertens, Alexander ^a   Brandl, Christopher ^a   Miron Shatz, Talya ^b,c   Schlick, Christopher ^a   Neumann, Till ^d   Kribben, Andreas ^d,e   Meister, Sven ^f   Diamantidis, Clarissa Jonas ^g   Albrecht, Urs Vito ^h   Horn, Peter ^e   Becker, Stefan ^d,e  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^c ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

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

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h Peter L Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of Technische Universität Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drug therapy; Elderly patients; Mobile application; Self management; Tablet computer; Therapy adherence

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MOBILE APPLICATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAL SIGN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC REHABILITATION; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

EID: 84988428121     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000004446     Document Type: Article

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