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Objective:To develop and evaluate the effect of Professional Care APP for stroke patients at home. Methods:Professional Care APP 1.0 was developed by reviewing literature, analyzing APP function and consulting expert, and combined with the findings at the early stage. And then it was upgraded to APP 2.0 after a 4-week trial in 10 stroke patients at home, which included two parts: patient-side and medical-side. The patient-side provided health education, rehabilitation guidance, medication reminder, online consultation and so on. From December, 2017 to June, 2018, 77 stroke patients in a community in Zhengzhou, China were conveniently selected and randomly divided into control group (n = 39) and intervention group (n = 38). The control group received routine community follow-up, and the intervention group received Professional Care APP 2.0, for 12 weeks. Results:After a 12-week intervention, the level of knowledge and medication compliance was significantly higher in the intervention group than in the control group (t > 4.205, P < 0.001). The score of demand for professional care was significantly lower in the intervention group than in the control group (t = -18.183, P < 0.001). The intervention group made a good evaluation for APP in usefulness, ease of learning, usability, credibility, acceptability and satisfaction. Conclusion:Professional Care APP can meet the professional care needs, and improve the level of knowledge on disease and medication compliance for stroke patients at home. The patients' evaluation for APP is ideal.
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This article reviewed general information, application and progress of the virtual reality (VR) technique. Lectures showed that the VR technique would impact and prompt the teaching, experiment, research and application of forensic pathology with the development of operation guiding system, virtual autopsy, micro-imaging technique. Because of the limitation of software, hardware and the expense, the VR technique needed to be improved and perfected.