Imperial College London
Alternate

Professor Josip Car

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 0799josip.car Website

 
 
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Location

 

326Reynolds BuildingCharing Cross Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Huang:2019:10.2196/preprints.15364,
author = {Huang, Z and Lum, E and Car, J},
doi = {10.2196/preprints.15364},
title = {Medication management apps for diabetes: A systematic assessment of the transparency and reliability of health information dissemination (Preprint)},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.15364},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - <sec>                    <title>BACKGROUND</title>                        <p>Smartphone apps are increasingly used for disease management but the transparency and reliability of information sources for these apps are unclear.</p>                </sec>                                <sec>                    <title>OBJECTIVE</title>                        <p>As part of a larger study investigating medication management features of diabetes apps, this study aimed to assess the transparency and reliability of information disseminated via these apps against eight criteria adapted from the Health On the Net (HONcode) principles.</p>                </sec>                                <sec>                    <title>METHODS</title>                        <p>English language diabetes-related terms were searched on a market explorer (42matters) on 12 June 2018. Apps with both medication and blood glucose management features were downloaded and evaluated against the app-HONcode criteria adapted from the eight HONcode principles: Authoritative, Complementarity, Privacy, Attribution, Justifiability, Transparency, Financial disclosure, and Advertising policy. Apps were profiled by operating platforms (i.e. Android, iOS) and number of downloads (i.e. Android only: >100,000 downloads, <100,000 downloads).</p>                </sec>                                <sec>                    <title>RESULTS</title>                        <p>143 apps (81 Android, 62 iOS) were downloaded and assessed against the adapted App-HONcode criteria. Most of the apps on both the Android and iOS platforms fulfilled between two to six criteria but very few apps mentioned the qualifications of individuals who contributed to app development (14.0%, 20/143). A higher proportion of iOS apps fulfilled six or more App-HONcode criteria compared with Android apps.
AU  - Huang,Z
AU  - Lum,E
AU  - Car,J
DO  - 10.2196/preprints.15364
PY  - 2019///
TI  - Medication management apps for diabetes: A systematic assessment of the transparency and reliability of health information dissemination (Preprint)
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.15364
ER  -
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