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Safer virtual pillbox: assuring medication adherence to elderly patients
Title: Safer virtual pillbox: assuring medication adherence to elderly patients |
Authors: Botella, Federico Borrás, Fernando Mira, José Joaquín |
Editor: Advanced Composite Materials (ACM) |
Department: Departamentos de la UMH::Estadística, Matemáticas e Informática |
Issue Date: 2013 |
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11000/33642 |
Abstract:
In this paper, we describe a new mobile application for assisting
to elderly patients and their caregivers (familiars, physicians,
pharmacist) in the medication management at their homes. This
mobile application will help patients to maintain medication
adherence in a reliable and correctly intake of their drugs. The
main target users of this application are polymedicated,
polypathology and over 65 years old patients. The application was
designed using User Centered Design (UCD) methods, taking
always into account the characteristics of these target users, so
usability and accessibility principles were applied in the design of
interfaces. The design has been tested with a pre-test group of
selected patients and we have confirmed that patients using this
mobile application have increased their medication adherence and
have reduced the frequency of adverse drug events.
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Keywords/Subjects: Medication errors Patient Care Safety Treatments Mobile Apps mHealth |
Knowledge area: CDU: Ciencias puras y naturales: Matemáticas |
Type of document: application/pdf |
Access rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2491148.2491155 |
Appears in Collections: Artículos Estadística, Matemáticas e Informática
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