Clinical and cost effectiveness of mobile phone supported self monitoring of asthma: Multicentre randomised controlled trial

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7854, 2012, Pages

  Ryan, Dermot ^a   Price, David ^a   Musgrave, Stan D ^a   Malhotra, Shweta ^a   Lee, Amanda J ^a   Ayansina, Dolapo ^a   Sheikh, Aziz ^b   Tarassenko, Lionel ^c   Pagliari, Claudia ^b   Pinnock, Hilary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF MONITORING; TELECONSULTATION; TELEMONITORING; UNITED KINGDOM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; ECONOMICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CARE; STANDARD; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CELLULAR PHONE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; HOTLINES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REMOTE CONSULTATION; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860350041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e1756     Document Type: Article

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