SynthesisBMC pulmonary medicine2018
Mobile health applications in self-management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of their efficacy.
Synthesis in BMC pulmonary medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04820790 (Mobile Application for Monitoring Patients With Home Oxygen. A Protocol of a Randomized and Controlled Clinical Trial.), which is not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Mobile Application for Monitoring Patients With Home Oxygen. A Protocol of a Randomized and Controlled Clinical Trial.
Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Mobile Health-Based Self-Management Programs on Health-Related Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Digital Health Interventions for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
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- Effectiveness of remote home monitoring for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): systematic review.BMC health services research · 2022Pooled it
- Role of new digital technologies and telemedicine in pulmonary rehabilitation : Smart devices in the treatment of chronic respiratory diseases.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2021Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Telemonitoring for Reducing Exacerbation Occurrence in COPD Patients With Past Exacerbation History: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Are COPD self-management mobile applications effective? A systematic review and meta-analysis.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Technology-Enabled Self-Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease With or Without Asynchronous Remote Monitoring: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Trial
- Development of a theory-based self-management digital intervention to promote physical activity in people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Respir'air BPCO.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026Article
- Impact of mHealth-Augmented Social Support on Health Care Use Among Patients With Diabetes: Secondary Analysis of the TExT-MED+FANS Trial.Interactive journal of medical research · 2026Article
- The impact of patient-facing digital health interventions on patient safety outcomes: a meta-analysis of meta-analyses.Oxford open digital health · 2026Review
- A standards-based approach to digital health research: implementing the people heart study.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Article
- Mobile Phone Auscultation Accurately Diagnoses Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Using Nonlinear Respiratory Biofluid Dynamics.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Digital health technologies for improving the management of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Review
- Assessment of Medication Adherence Using Mobile Applications in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Insights into Digital MedicRehApp Maintenance Model for Pulmonary Telerehabilitation: Observational Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A mobile-based self-care application for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A protocol for design, implementation, and evaluation.Health science reports · 2024Article
- What's Next in MHealth Apps in Rehabilitation: Re-Directing Our Attention to Evaluating Quality.Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundMobile health applications are increasingly used in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) to improve their self-management, nonetheless, without firm evidence of their efficacy. This meta-analysis was aimed to assess the efficacy of mobile health applications in supporting self-management as an intervention to reduce hospital admission rates and average days of hospitalization, etc.
methodsPubMed, Web of Science (SCI), Cochrane Library, and Embase were searched for relevant articles published before November 14th, 2017. A total of 6 reports with randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were finally included in this meta-analysis.
resultsPatients using mobile phone applications may have a lower risk for hospital admissions than those in the usual care group (risk ratio (RR) = 0.73, 95% CI [0.52, 1.04]). However, there was no significant difference in reducing the average days of hospitalization.
conclusionSelf-management with mobile phone applications could reduce hospital admissions of patients with COPD.
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