title: Development and examination of a rubric for evaluating point-of-care medical applications for mobile devices.
abstract: The rapid development and updates of mobile medical resource applications (apps) highlight the need for an evaluation tool to assess the content of these resources. The purpose of the study was to develop and test a new evaluation rubric for medical resource apps. The evaluation rubric was designed using existing literature and through a collaborative effort between a hospital and an academic librarian. Testing found scores ranging from 23% to 88% for the apps. The evaluation rubric proved able to distinguish levels of quality within each content component of the apps, demonstrating potential for standardization of medical resource app evaluations.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Family and Community Medicine , University of Toronto , Toronto , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Robyn
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Butcher
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: MacKinnon
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gadd
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: LeBlanc-Duchin
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D063731:Mobile Applications / Q000592:standards*; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D014481:United States
keywords: Clinical decisions; content quality; diagnosis and treatment; evaluation rubric; medical resources; mobile devices; mobile medical apps; point-of-care tools; usability