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Healthcare workers’ informal uses of mobile phones and other mobile devices to support their work, a qualitative evidence synthesis: a Cochrane review
Claire Glenton1, Elizabeth Paulsen2, Smisha Agarwal3,4, Unni Gopinathan5, Marit Johansen5, David Kyaddondo6, Susan Munabi-Babigumira1, Josephine Nabukenya7, Immaculate Nakityo8, Rehema Namaganda9, Josephine Namitala10,11, Tom Neumark12,13, Allen Nsangi9, Neil M Pakenham-Walsh14, Arash Rashidian15, GeoA Royston16, Nelson Sewankambo8, Tigest Tamrat17, Simon Lewin18-20
Affiliation of the authors
1Departamento de Salud y Funcionamiento, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. 2Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway. 3Departamento de Salud Internacional, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 4Center for Global Digital Health Innovation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. 5Global Health Cluster, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. 6Child Health and Development Centre, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. 7Departamento de Sistemas de Información, School of Computing and Informatics Technology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. 8Facultad de Medicina, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda. 9College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. 10College of Education and External Studies, Departamento de Educación de Adultos y Comunitaria, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. 11Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 12Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 13Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 14Healthcare Information For All, Chipping Norton, UK. 15Departamento de Ciencia, Información y Difusión, Oficina Regional de la OMS para el Mediterráneo Oriental, El Cairo, Egypt. 16Global Healthcare Information Network, Oxford, UK. 17Programa Especial PNUD/UNFPA/UNICEF/Banco Mundial de Investigación, Desarrollo y Formación en Investigación en Reproducción Humana (HRP), Departamento de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva e Investigación, Organización Mundial de la Salud, Ginebra, Switzeland. 18Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud de Ålesund, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Ålesund, Norway. 19Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Ciudad del Cabo, South Africa. 20Centre for Epidemic Interventions Research (CEIR), Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway..
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Glenton C, Paulsen E, Agarwal S, Gopinathan U, Johansen M, Kyaddondo D, et al. Healthcare workers’ informal uses of mobile phones and other mobile devices to support their work, a qualitative evidence synthesis: a Cochrane review. Emergencias. 2026;38:212-4