论文标题
使用手机应用程序评估药物依从性和市场后药物监视的药丸识别
Pill Identification using a Mobile Phone App for Assessing Medication Adherence and Post-Market Drug Surveillance
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论文摘要
目标：药物不遵守是临床实践和研究方法中的重要因素。有许多方法可以衡量依从性，但没有公认的依从性标准。在这里，我们对手机应用程序使用手机应用程序和自我报告的健康措施拍摄的照片进行了手机应用程序的有用性和功效进行软件研究。 结果：该应用程序要求参与者“将有助于跟踪您的药物”，他们的回答表明92.9％的人感觉到该应用程序“您每天都会使用此应用程序来改善他们的药物依从性。该应用程序还询问了对象，他们是否每天都会拍摄药丸”。主题响应表明63％的人每天都使用该应用程序。通过使用收集的数据，我们确定每天使用该应用程序的受试者更有可能遵守规定的方案。 结论：药丸照片是依从性的有用度量，可以进行更准确的时间指标和更频繁的依从性评估。鉴于移动电话使用的普遍性以及这种依从性测量方法的相对便捷性，我们认为这是一种有用且具有成本效益的方法。但是，我们认为使用手机拍摄药丸的“手动”性质具有个体可变性，并且需要一种“自动”方法来减少数据不一致。
Objectives: Medication non-adherence is an important factor in clinical practice and research methodology. There have been many methods of measuring adherence yet no recognized standard for adherence. Here we conduct a software study of the usefulness and efficacy of a mobile phone app to measure medication adherence using photographs taken by a phone app of medications and self-reported health measures. Results: The participants were asked by the app 'would help to keep track of your medication', their response indicated 92.9% felt the app 'would you use this app every day' to improve their medication adherence. The subjects were also asked by the app if they 'would photograph their pills on a daily basis'. Subject responses indicated 63% would use the app on a daily basis. By using the data collected, we determined that subjects who used the app on daily basis were more likely to adhere to the prescribed regimen. Conclusions: Pill photographs are a useful measure of adherence, allowing more accurate time measures and more frequent adherence assessment. Given the ubiquity of mobile telephone use, and the relative ease of this adherence measurement method, we believe it is a useful and cost-effective approach. However we feel the 'manual' nature of using the phone for taking a photograph of a pill has individual variability and an 'automatic' method is needed to reduce data inconsistency.
