title: A wireless mobile health-related quality of life assessment.
abstract: Self-administered waiting room questionnaires are popular tools for gathering health information from patients, but they require optical scanning or manual data entry to obtain survey results. The application described here eliminates those extra steps by inputting the results into a remote database directly through wireless connection, and the assessment can be finished easily anywhere in the clinic through a mobile platform. A measure of health-related quality of life, the SF-8 Health Survey, was used in developing this application for using in the clinical setting. It has only eight questions measuring each of the eight domains of health in the longer SF-36 Health Survey.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77098, USA.
authors.forename: Cai
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Volk
authors.forename: Jeffrey R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Steinbauer
authors.forename: Grace M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: J Scott
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D011788:Quality of Life; D012984:Software; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires