Apps for asthma self-management: A systematic assessment of content and tools

BMC Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Huckvale, Kit ^a   Car, Mate ^a   Morrison, Cecily ^a,b   Car, Josip ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

App; Asthma; Ehealth; Mobile; Smartphone; Software; TELEHEALTH

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONFIDENTIALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LUNG FUNCTION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METERED DOSE INHALER; MOBILE PHONE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SELF CARE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHEEZING;

ASTHMA; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; SELF CARE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84869863223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-144     Document Type: Article

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