Trial reportJournal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society2022
Health care costs related to home spirometry in the eICE randomized trial.
Trial report in Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Effects of Remote Patient Monitoring on Health Care Utilization in Patients With Noncommunicable Diseases: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Pooled it
- Digital technology for early identification of exacerbations in people with cystic fibrosis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Digital technology for monitoring adherence to inhaled therapies in people with cystic fibrosis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- A Randomized Clinical Trial of Antimicrobial Duration for Cystic Fibrosis Pulmonary Exacerbation Treatment.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2021Trial
- Reporting of Telehealth Implementation in Cystic Fibrosis: Scoping Review Using a Novel Theory-Based Evaluation Lens.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Symptom phenotyping in people with cystic fibrosis during acute pulmonary exacerbations using machine-learning K-means clustering analysis.Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundHome spirometry with regular symptom assessment is one strategy to track lung health to intervene early in episodes of pulmonary exacerbations (PE). In a multi-center randomized controlled trial home spirometry and symptom tracking demonstrated no significant differences regarding the primary clinical endpoint, FEV
methodsWe reviewed healthcare resource utilization of all 267 eICE participants, including outpatient visits, antibiotics and hospitalizations. Prices were identified in the IBM/Watson MarketScan
resultsOutpatient visit costs were significantly higher by 13% in the Early Intervention (EI) than in the usual care (UC) arm ($3,345 vs. $2,966). We found no significant differences in outpatient antibiotic, hospitalization, or total health care costs between the arms.
conclusionsWithin the context of the eICE trial, outpatient visits were significantly higher in those with experimental home spirometry care, but that did not translate into statistically significant differences of overall health care costs between the two arms.
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