Attempt of Reviewing of Serious Game for Medicine by Using PubMed

Abstract

While serious games have been actively developed in recent years, serious games for medical purposes are no exception. However, there have been few attempts at literature reviews. This study aims to investigate and examine the characteristics of medical serious games as a preliminary step toward conducting a systematic review of medical serious games. A cross-journal search using PubMed with the keyword “Serious game” revealed that some relevant papers were not included in the search results. Additionally, aiming to discover general serious game-related search keywords, we analyzed frequently occurring keywords in papers published in JMIR Serious Games journal and obtained a set of keywords that encompassed 86% of papers published in JMIR Serious Games.