Telehealthcare for asthma: A Cochrane review

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 183, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  McLean, Susannah ^a   Chandler, David ^a   Nurmatov, Ulugbek ^a   Liu, Joseph ^a   Pagliari, Claudia ^a   Car, Josip ^b   Sheikh, Aziz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNET; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; TELEHEALTHCARE; TELEPHONE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 80051565626     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.101146     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Pearce N, Sunyer J, Cheng S, et al. Comparison of asthma prevalence in the ISAAC and the ECRHS. Eur Respir J 2000;16:420-6.
2. Asher MI, Montefore S, Bjorkstén B, et al. Worldwide time trends in the prevalence of symptoms of asthma allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in childhood: ISAAC Phases One and Three repeat muli-country cross-sectional surveys. Lancet 2006;368:733-43. (Pubitemid 44279052)
3. Anderson HR, Gupta R, Strachan DP, et al. 50 years of asthma: UK trends from 1955 to 2004. Thorax 2007;62:85-90. (Pubitemid 46101771)
4. Masoli M, Fabian D, Holt S, et al. Global burden of asthma. GINA [The Global Initiative for Asthma]; 2003.
5. The future of asthma. Lancet 1997;350:1113.
6. Anandan C, Nurmatov U, Sheikh A. Is the prevalence of asthma declining, systematic review of epidemiological studies. Allergy 2010;65:152-67.
7. Simpson CR, Sheikh A. Trends in the epidemiology of asthma in England: a national study of 333,294 patients. J R Soc Med 2010;103:98-106.
8. Punekar YS, Sheikh A. Establishing the incidence and prevalence of clinician-diagnosed allergic conditions in children and adolescent using routinely collected data from general practices. Clin Exp Allergy 2009;39:1209-16.
9. Marks GB. Geographical heterogeneity of asthma. Int J Epidemiol 2001;30:179-80.
10. Stewart AW, Mitchell EA, Pearce N, et al. ISAAC. The relationship of per capita gross national product to the prevalence of symptoms of asthma and other atopic diseases in children (ISAAC). Int J Epidemiol 2001;30:173-9. (Pubitemid 32203808)
11. Weiland SK, Bjorkstén B, Brunekreef B, et al. Phase II of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC II): rationale and methods. Eur Respir J 2004;24:406-12. (Pubitemid 39232263)
12. Gupta R, Sheikh A, Strachan D, et al. Burden of allergic disease in the UK: secondary analyses of national databases. Clin Exp Allergy 2004;34:520-6. (Pubitemid 38534881)
13. Anandan C, Gupta R, Simpson C. C F, Sheikh A. Epidemiology and disease burden from allergic disease in Scotland: analyses of national databases. J R Soc Med 2009;102:431-42.
14. Car J, Sheikh A. Email consultations in healthcare: 1- scope and effectiveness. BMJ 2004;329:435-8. (Pubitemid 39141479)
15. Car J, Sheikh A. Email consultation in healthcare: 2- acceptability and safe application. BMJ 2004;329:439-42. (Pubitemid 39141481)
16. McLean S, Sheikh A. Does telehealthcare offer a patient-centred way forward for the community-based management of long-term respiratory disease? Prim Care Respir J 2009;18:125-6.
17. McLean S, Liu J, Pagliari C, et al. Telehealthcare for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [protocol]. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2008; updated 2011 Feb. 21.
18. Miller EA. Solving the disjuncture between research and practice, telehealth trends in the 21st Century. Health Policy 2007;82:133-41. (Pubitemid 46777061)
19. Higgins J, Green S, editors. Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons; 2009.
20. Barbanel D, Eldridge S, Griffiths C. Can a self-management programme delivered by a community pharmacist improve asthma control? A randomised trial. Thorax 2003;58:851-4. (Pubitemid 37239231)
21. Bynum A, Hopkins D, Thomas A, et al. The effect of telepharmacy counselling on metered-dose inhaler technique among adolescents with asthma in rural arkansas. Telemed J E Health 2001;7:207-17. (Pubitemid 34438275)
22. Chan DS, Callahan CW, Hatch-Pigott VB, et al. Internet-based home monitoring and education of children with asthma is comparable to ideal office-based care: results of a 1-year asthma inhome monitoring trial. Pediatrics 2007;119:569-78. (Pubitemid 46407554)
23. Chatkin JM, Blanco DC, Scaglia N, et al. Impact of a low-cost and simple intervention in enhancing treatment adherence in a Brazilian asthma sample. J Asthma 2006;43:263-6.
24. Clark NM, Gong ZM, Si JW, et al. A randomized trial of a self-regulation intervention for women with asthma. Chest 2007;132:88-97. (Pubitemid 47068208)
25. Cruz-Correia R, Fonseca J, Lima L, et al. Web-based or paper-based self-management tools for asthma - patients' opinions and quality of data in a randomized crossover study. Stud Health Technol Inform 2007;127:178-89.
26. de Jongste JC, Carraro S, Hop WC, et al. Daily telemonitoring of exhaled nitric oxide and symptoms in the treatment of childhood asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009;179:93-7.
27. Donald KJ, McBurney H, Teichtahl H, et al. A pilot study of telephone based asthma management. Aust Fam Physician 2008;37:170-3.
28. Donald KJ, McBurney H, Teichtahl H, et al. Telephone based asthma management; Financial and individual benefits. Aust Fam Physician 2008;37:272-75.
29. Gruffydd-Jones K, Hollinghurst S, Ward S, et al. Targeted routine asthma care in general practice using telephone triage. Br J Gen Pract 2005;55:918-23. (Pubitemid 41763120)
30. Guendelman S, Meade K, Benson M, et al. Improving asthma outcomes and self-management behaviors of inner-city children: a randomized trial of the Health Buddy interactive device and an asthma diary. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2002;156:114-20. (Pubitemid 34111466)
31. Jan RL, Wang JY, Huang MC, et al. An internet-based interactive telemonitoring system for improving childhood asthma outcomes in Taiwan. Telemed J E Health 2007;13:257-68.
32. Khan MSR, O'Meara M, Stevermuer TL, et al. Randomized controlled trial of asthma education after discharge from an emergency department. J Paediatr Child Health 2004;40:674-7. (Pubitemid 39657622)
33. Kokubu F, Suzuki H, Sano Y, Kihara N, Adachi M. Telemedicine system for high-risk asthmatic patients. Arerugi 1999;48:700-12.
34. Kokubu F, Nakajima S, Ito K, et al. Hospitalisation reduction by an asthma tele-medicine system. Arerugi 2000;49:19-31.
35. Ostojic V, Cvoriscec B, Ostojic SB, et al. Improving asthma control through telemedicine: A study of short-message service. Telemed J E Health 2005;11:28-35. (Pubitemid 40393304)
36. Pinnock H, Bawden R, Proctor S, et al. Accessibility, acceptability, and effectiveness in primary care of routine telephone review of asthma: pragmatic, randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2003;326:477-9. (Pubitemid 36269630)
37. Pinnock H, McKenzie L, Price D, et al. Cost-effectiveness of telephone or surgery asthma reviews: economic analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Br J Gen Pract 2005;55:119-24. (Pubitemid 40246925)
38. Pinnock H, Adlem L, Gaskin S, et al. Accessibility clinical effectiveness and practice costs of providing a telephone option for routine asthma reviews: phase IV controlled implementation study. Br J Gen Pract 2007;57:714-22. (Pubitemid 47423017)
39. Rasmussen LM, Phanareth K, Nolte H, et al. Internet-based monitoring of asthma: A long-term, randomized clinical study of 300 asthmatic subjects. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005;115:1137-42.
40. van der Meer V, Bakker M, van den Hour W, et al. Internet-based self management plus education compared with usual care in asthma. Ann Intern Med 2009;151:110-20.
41. Vollmer WM, Kirshner M, Peters D, et al. Use and impact of an automated telephone outreach system for asthma in a managed care setting. Am J Manag Care 2006;12:725-33. (Pubitemid 44955868)
42. Willems DC, Moore MA, Jenkins JJ. The effectiveness of nurse-led telemonitoring of asthma results of a randomized controlled trial. J Eval Clin Pract 2008;14:600-9.
43. Willems DCM, Joore MA, Hendriks JJE, et al. Cost-effectiveness of a nurse-led telemonitoring intervention based on peak expiratory flow measurements in asthmatics: Results of a randomised controlled trial. Cost Eff Resour Alloc 2007;5:10.
44. Willems DC, Joore MA, Hendriks JJ, et al. Process evaluation of a nurse-led telemonitoring programme for patients with asthma. J Telemed Telecare 2007;13:310-7.
45. Pinnock H, Sheikh A, Bawden R, et al. Cost effectiveness of telephone vs face to face consultations for annual asthma review: randomised controlled trial in UK primary care [abstract]. Eur Respir J 2003;22(Suppl 45).
46. Phanareth K, Rasmussen L, Nolte H, et al. Using the internet as a tool for the management of asthma disease. Eur Respir J 2002;20(Suppl 38):54s.
47. Duvvuri VR, Jianhhong W. Information and communication technology developments in asthma management: a systematic review. Indian J Med Sci 2007;61:221-41. (Pubitemid 46536619)
48. Craig P, Dieppe P, Macintyre S, et al. Developing and evaluating complex interventions: the new Medical Research Council guidance BMJ. 2008;337:a1655. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a1655.