An observational study to find out the published research in the Pubmed on the Medical apps in Smartphones amongst various Specialties &  Subspecialties in the domain of Medicine.

Dr Girish Gupta; Dr Shashi Girish Gupta

Volume : VI, Issue : V, May - 2016

An observational study to find out the published research in the Pubmed on the Medical apps in Smartphones amongst various Specialties & Subspecialties in the domain of Medicine.

Dr Girish Gupta, Dr Shashi Girish Gupta

Abstract :

The observational study was conducted to find out the published literature on the Medical apps amongst various Specialties & Subspecialties in the domain of Medicine in the Pubmed database as on 31st Mar 2016. Total of 448 publications were retrieved with search words of Apps and smartphones in Pubmed database. Data retrieved of 20 basic specialties & 22 subspecialties. Amongst basic specialties, only 5 of them have publications numbering more than 10 (Range 11–196). Medicine had highest number of publications being 196 followed by Surgery. While in subspecialties and allied only 3 have more than 10 (range 14–75) publications with Medical Informatics having 75 followed by Nutrition & Oncology. Biochemistry, Forensic Medicine, Neonatology, Gastrointestinal surgery & Oncosurgery have unique distinction with nil publication. This study revealed the comprehensive use of apps in all domains of Medicine. 80% of analyzed specialties & subspecialties have less than 10 publications. Therefore, study indicates that there is need to have more use & publications on apps by most of the subjects of medicine.