Correction: Evaluation Criteria for Weight Management Apps: Validation Using a Modified Delphi Process.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.2196/16899.].

Correction: Assessment of the Efficacy, Safety, and Effectiveness of Weight Control and Obesity Management Mobile Health Interventions: Systematic Review.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.2196/12612.].

Usability of a mobile application for health professionals in home care services: a user-centered approach.

The use of mobile devices by healthcare professionals has led to rapid growth in the development of mobile healthcare applications designed to improve healthcare services. This study was conducted to assess the acceptability and usability of a mobile application for health professionals in relation to their work in hospitalization at home. A mixed methods approach was used.

Codesign and Feasibility Testing of a Tool to Evaluate Overweight and Obesity Apps.

Background: Digital health interventions and mobile technologies can help to reduce the rates of obesity and overweight conditions. Although weight management apps are widely used, they usually lack professional content and evaluation, so the quality of these apps cannot be guaranteed. The EVALAPPS project aims to design and validate a tool to assess the safety and effectiveness of health-related apps whose main goal is to manage and prevent obesity and overweight conditions.

Massive data screening is a second opportunity to improve the management of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia phenotype.

Introduction: Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an autosomal dominant disease with an estimated prevalence between 1/200-250. It is under-treated and underdiagnosed. Massive data screening can increase the detection of patients with FH.

Evaluation Criteria for Weight Management Apps: Validation Using a Modified Delphi Process.

Background: The use of apps for weight management has increased over recent years; however, there is a lack of evidence regarding the efficacy and safety of these apps. The EVALAPPS project will develop and validate an assessment instrument to specifically assess the safety and efficacy of weight management apps.

Objective: The aim of this study was to reach a consensus among stakeholders on a comprehensive set of criteria to guide development of the EVALAPPS assessment instrument.

Assessment of the Efficacy, Safety, and Effectiveness of Weight Control and Obesity Management Mobile Health Interventions: Systematic Review.

Background: The use of apps to tackle overweight and obesity by tracking physical and dietary patterns and providing recommendations and motivation strategies to achieve personalized goals has increased over recent years. However, evidence of the efficacy, effectiveness, and safety of these apps is severely lacking.

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify efficacy, safety, and effectiveness criteria used to assess weight control, overweight, and obesity management in mobile health (mHealth) interventions through a systematic review.

Pilot study to validate a computer-based clinical decision support system for dyslipidemia treatment (HTE-DLP).

Unlabelled: Pilot study to validate a Computerized Decision Support Systems (CDS) (HTE-DLP) for improving treatment of hyperlipidemia.

Methods: HTE-DLP was programmed to offer automatic specific reminders for lipid treatment. Seventy-seven patients with high cardiovascular risk were randomized.

[Evaluation of an intervention program in nursing homes to reduce hospital attendance].

Objectives: This study describes the outcomes of an intervention program in Nursing Homes and their effects on emergency room attendance, hospital admissions, and pharmaceutical expenditure.

Material And Methods: This involved non-randomised community intervention in Nursing Homes with a control group. The program was implemented gradually from 2007 to 2009 in 10 Nursing Homes (857 beds) which participated voluntarily.

Prediction of postoperative pulmonary complications in a population-based surgical cohort.

Background: Current knowledge of the risk for postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) rests on studies that narrowly selected patients and procedures. Hypothesizing that PPC occurrence could be predicted from a reduced set of perioperative variables, we aimed to develop a predictive index for a broad surgical population.

Methods: Patients undergoing surgical procedures given general, neuraxial, or regional anesthesia in 59 hospitals were randomly selected for this prospective, multicenter study.

Increasing trends of acute myocardial infarction in Spain: the MONICA-Catalonia Study.

Aims: To assess coronary mortality and morbidity secular trends in Spain.

Methods And Results: Acute coronary events occurring in both sexes at ages 35-74 years between 1985 and 1997, were monitored in a geographical area of Catalonia, through a population-based registry. Information was collected from annual discharge lists of 78 hospitals and from death certificates, and validated following the methods and quality control of the World Health Organization MONItoring Trends and Determinants in CArdiovascular Disease Project (MONICA).

[Prevalence of drug utilization in the adult population of Catalonia, Spain].

Objectives: To describe the prevalence of drug utilization according to sociodemographic factors and self-perceived health in the adult population.

Methods: Cross-sectional health survey of the CRONICAT/MONICA-Catalonia study carried out in 1994-96 in a random sample of the general population aged 25-64 years. A total of 3,421 participants (72% response rate) were interviewed about drug consumption in the previous two weeks with an open questionnaire.

[Secular trends in smoking according to educational level between 1986 and 1996: The MONICA study. Catalonia].

Objective: To describe trends from 1986-1996 in the prevalence of cigarette smoking between ages 25 to 64 in the MONICA-Catalonia study, according to educational level, and to validate these trends biochemically.

Methods: Three cross-sectional surveys in independent random samples of the general population of central Catalonia area carried out in 1986-88, 1990-92 and 1994-96 following the World Health Organization's MONICA protocol. Serum thiocyanate was determined by the Bowler method.

[Trends in prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of arterial hypertension between 1986 and 1996: the MONICA-Catalonia study].

Background: To describe temporal trends in blood pressure (BP) and in the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of arterial hypertension(AH) between 1986-1996 in the MONICA-Catalonia study.

Subjects And Method: Three cross-sectional health surveys in independent random samples of the general population aged 25-64, carried out in 1986-88,1990-92 and 1994-96 according to the WHO-MONICA study protocol.BP was measured twice with a random zero mercury sphygmomanometer.

Recruitment methods and differences in early, late and non-respondents in the first MONICA-Catalonia population survey.

The early response rate in the first MONICA-Catalonia population survey was 52.7% and the final response rate was 73.8%.