Female UrologyDevelopment and Usability Testing of a Mobile Application to Monitor Patient-Reported Outcomes after Stress Urinary Incontinence Surgery
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METHODS
The study was approved by the Weill Cornell Medical College Institutional Review Board (1911021104) for Human Studies and adhered to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from all patients.
RESULTS
Twenty patients and 5 surgeons completed the questionnaires that were assigned to them in the mobile app. All surgeons completed an additional questionnaire focusing on their experience to explore additional aspects of the app. As the users filled in their responses, the HIVE engine monitored data entry and minimized inaccuracies by automatically populating values from previous pages and suggesting a list of variables for easy selection where applicable. Furthermore, time, and dependency
DISCUSSION
There is a substantial growth in mobile app users,14 with over 318,000 health apps available on app stores worldwide, and more than 200 apps being added each day.15 There is a paradigm shift in the delivery of health care recently accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic that encouraged virtual consultations through medical health apps for a safer approach without reducing care quality.16 A recent systematic review of 33 studies evaluating the usability of medical health apps found that although
Acknowledgment
This study was funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U01FD006292) through the National Evaluation System for Health Technology Coordinating Center (NESTcc) test case sub-award number 6292-2020-R2TCB25-001.
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Funding Support: This study was funded by the U.S. FDA NESTcc grant U01FD006292.