An observational study to find out the published studies in the Pubmed on Medical apps in Smartphones in various domains of Medical practice & training.

Dr Girish Gupta; Dr Shashi Girish Gupta

Volume : VI, Issue : V, May - 2016

An observational study to find out the published studies in the Pubmed on Medical apps in Smartphones in various domains of Medical practice & training.

Dr Girish Gupta, Dr Shashi Girish Gupta

Abstract :

The observational study was conducted to find out the published literature on Medical apps from various domains of Medical Practice & Training 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 9 domains of medical practice & training, revealed highest publications being 254 from procedure followed by 216 in research & minimum in innovations, prescription, simulation & audit being 3,2,1&1 respectively. This study revealed the comprehensive coverage all domains of medicine, however, pattern revealed lesser representation of important domains of Prescription & Audit.