CONTEXT: At first glance this interview article about an app developed to measure a set of performance indicators may seem to be on the fringes of “proper science”. However, patients are people and these types of real-world data sources are attracting more attention as potentially useful datasets. Keep an eye on this are of development, it will be a growing area for clinical researchers to tap into. Remember, you read it here first.
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1. “VPR’s Mitch Wertlieb spoke with St. Michael’s professor Ari Kirschenbaum about the Indicator smartphone app he’s developed, which aims to help cannabis users gain awareness of how the drug is affecting them.”
2. “My real goal with the app is to just collect information about how cannabis and THC alter neuropsychological functioning.”
3. “And then if they were to use a little bit of cannabis for whatever reason, the app would give their performance relative to their sober performance.”
4. “Or is it more like the user has to sort of gauge what they’ve done while sober [and] compare it to what the app says when they’re high, and then make a determination about how high they actually are?At this point, the app cannot be used as a reliable tool to say whether or not you are safe to drive, or you’re safe to operate heavy equipment.”
5. “All the app does is it gives you some hopefully useful information about how cannabis is impairing you.”
Source URL: https://www.vpr.org/post/app-measures-how-high-you-are-st-mikes-professor-tests-idea