Interactive pediatric emergency checklists to the palm of your hand ‐ How the Pedi Crisis App traveled around the world

Abstract

Google Analytics correlates session activity with geographic location based on local Internet service provider logs. Pedi Crisis had 1 252 active users (both new and returning) and 4 140 sessions across 108 countries during the 3-month study period. Returning users used the app longer and viewed significantly more screens that new users (mean screen views: new users 1.3 [standard deviation +/-1.09, 95% confidence interval 1.22-1.55]; returning users 7.6 [standard deviation +/-4.19, 95% confidence interval 6.73-8.39]P<.01) CONCLUSIONS: Pedi Crisis was used worldwide within days of its release and sustained utilization beyond initial publication. The proliferation of handheld electronic devices provides a unique opportunity for professional societies to improve the worldwide dissemination of guidelines and evidence-based cognitive aids.

Medical Correctness and User Friendliness of Available Apps for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Systematic Search Combined With Guideline Adherence and Usability Evaluation

“…Likewise, the market of mHealth apps has grown exponentially over the last years [ 18 - 20 ]. Cognitive aids, which are based on medical guidelines, are increasingly accepted in health care [ 21 ]. Ahn et al described that the total number of downloads for CPR training apps is about several hundred thousand [ 22 ].…”

Evidence for increased use of the Society of Pediatric Anesthesia Critical Events Checklist in resource‐limited environments: A retrospective observational study of app data

“…Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders examined the usage patterns of their Clinical Guidelines app over a 6‐month period finding 3500 downloads and 36 000 sessions demonstrating wide utilization and potential correlation of disease information accesses with geographic disease outbreaks . Galvez and colleagues analyzed the usage of the pedi crisis app developed by SPA over a 3‐month period, finding active users in 108 countries with return users using the app more extensively, with longer sessions and more screen views, suggesting usefulness of app to clinical practice …”

“…Existing studies have examined mHealth app utilization in resident education and medical humanitarian organizations . Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, examined the usage patterns of their Clinical Guidelines app, and Galvez and colleagues analyzed the usage of the pedi crisis App developed by SPA demonstrating that apps can disseminate cognitive aids . A limitation of these studies was the lack of demographic data about users—who are the users and how were they using the apps?…”

Training Cognitive Functions Using Mobile Apps in Breast Cancer Patients: Systematic Review

“…We excluded a total of two reviews [19,35], five case reports [36][37][38][39][40] and two protocols [41,42]. Sixteen studies were excluded from the present systematic review because they did not use mobile applications to train cognitive functions [20,43,[52][53][54][55][56][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]. Eleven studies were excluded because they used mobile applications only to assess -and not to train -cognitive functions [57,58,67,[59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66].…”