mHealth and application technology supporting clinical trials: Today's limitations and future perspective of smartRCTs

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2017, Pages

  Vogel, Marco M E ^a,b   Combs, Stephanie E ^a,b   Kessel, Kerstin A ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

App; Clinical trials; EHealth; MHealth; SmartRCT

Indexed keywords

APPLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SMARTPHONE; TABLET; TELEHEALTH;

EID: 85017160254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2017.00037     Document Type: Article

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