Quality assessment of mobile applications on postpartum hemorrhage management.
Érika Maria Alves da Silva, Sheyla Costa de Oliveira, Danielle Santos Alves
PMID 38194516WHAT IT FOUND
Seven free postpartum hemorrhage apps rated acceptable overall, but engagement and content were weak. 71.4% carried under 50% of expected management information, and none covered complete care in one app.
Key findings
01Seven apps for postpartum hemorrhage management were assessed, and their overall quality mean was 3.88, rated acceptable.
02Functionality scored highest, mean 4.88, while engagement scored lowest, and no app achieved an overall quality mean of 5.0.
0371.4% of the apps presented less than 50% of the information on postpartum hemorrhage management, and none covered complete management in a unified way.
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What it does not show
Only seven apps met the inclusion criteria, so the findings may not represent all available apps. Paid apps, apps needing institutional login, and temporarily disabled apps were excluded, so potentially useful apps were not assessed. The study did not involve patients, families or clinicians as participants, so it did not test how app use affects care. The search was done in January to February 2023, so app content may have changed since then. Content completeness was judged against a 20-item list, not against patient outcomes.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that these apps are complete enough to guide postpartum hemorrhage care. The study assessed app quality and content, not patient outcomes, and 71.4% of the apps presented less than 50% of the information on postpartum hemorrhage management.