VALIDATION OF SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL MOBILE DEVICES BASED ON CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR TUBERCULOSIS – TUBER MOBILE

Clinical decision-making based in evidence available in large text files makes access to information time consuming. The increasing use of mobile devices provided solutions for different needs of society in real-time. Tuberculosis was elected by the Ministry of Health in Brazil as a priority public health problem being tackled. TUBER is a mobile prototype device developed to support tuberculosis management by physician at primary health care. The aim of this study is validation this prototype. The students of Family Medicine Clerkship at Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre who accepted participate were randomly divided in two groups. One group responded clinical cases based on prototype installed on tablets and the other on guideline text file. The outcomes were time to solve clinical cases, the number of hits on issues and satisfaction with the tool. For prototype is validated, the results were described and compared based on the data distribution and nature of the variables. The data were processed using the statistical software version 0.9.0 PSPP with significance level of 5% and 1% for comparisons between groups. The pilot results indicate acceptance of the tool. The validation of the TUBER application is an interactive tool that encourages learning and problem solving in an agile way.