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ReviewFrontiers in digital health2025

Digital health technologies for improving the management of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Hye Yun Park, Sunga Kong, Mangyeong Lee, Hyein Ryu, Yoko Hamakawa, Fabrizio Luppi, Janice M Leung

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Review in Frontiers in digital health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Hye Yun ParkDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Sunga KongDepartment of Clinical Research Design and Evaluation, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Mangyeong LeeDepartment of Digital Health, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Hyein RyuDepartment of Digital Health, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Yoko HamakawaCentre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Fabrizio LuppiRespiratory Unit, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori, Monza, Italy.
Janice M LeungCentre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances made in digital health in recent years have the potential to improve the care of patients living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for whom substantial disability still exists. In particular, telehealth and telerehabilitation programs, wearable devices, and apps have been studied as novel methods of providing care to COPD patients who may have limited access to clinical centers or who may benefit from an increased level of monitoring. Many of these interventions gained traction during the COVID-19 pandemic when mandated social isolation required the rapid implementation of remote care models. While these digital health interventions have since demonstrated promise in delivering care to otherwise isolated communities, the ongoing need for more evidence proving their positive impact on important clinical outcomes remains a barrier to their full implementation. How to best integrate digital health solutions into existing care models requires greater consideration of the technological, financial, and labor demands such solutions may entail.

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appsCOPDdigital healthtelehealthwearable devices

Identifiers

PMID40843141
PMCPMC12365816

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