A mobile telephone-based interactive self-care system improves asthma control

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 310-317

  Liu, W T ^a   Huang, C D ^a   Wang, C H ^a   Lee, K Y ^a   Lin, S M ^a   Kuo, H P ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asthma control; Interactive; Mobile telephone; Self care system; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CARE; SELF MONITORING; SHORT FORM 12; TAIWAN; TELEMEDICINE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; CELLULAR PHONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOTRIENE ANTAGONISTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SELF CARE; TELEMEDICINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953659191     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00000810     Document Type: Article

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