Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Date Submitted: Aug 27, 2020
Open Peer Review Period: Aug 27, 2020 - Oct 22, 2020
Date Accepted: Dec 23, 2020
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
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m-Health strategies for HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis: Patent Prospection, Systematic Literature Review and Analysis of Mobile Applications
ABSTRACT
Our aim was to identify and analyze applications for smart phones that address post-exposure prophylaxis to HIV. We conducted a descriptive-exploratory study, in threesequential phases: systematic literature review, patents analysis and applicationexploration. The review of the literature in the databases PubMed, Web of Knowledge,Scopus, Cochrane, Embase, Science Direct, Eric, Treasure and CINAHL. The secondphase corresponded to an exploration of applications in the INPI, OIMP andESPACENET patent databases. In the third phase, we performed an analysis on thetwo major application libraries: Google Play Store and App Stores. At each stage, theselected studies/patents/apps were analyzed and pre-selected, according to theinclusion and exclusion criteria, by reading their titles and descriptions. Theapplications were evaluated by name, characteristics, functions and availability for themain systems (iOS or Android). As for the patent registrations, these were analyzeddescriptively according to the information retrieved from the patent bases, titles,descriptions and applicants/inventors. None of the studies reported the creation orvalidation of an application, this represent a gap between the number of applicationavailable and the scientific research on the field.
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