TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of a home telemonitoring service for adult patients with cystic fibrosis
T2 - A pilot study
AU - Grzincich, Gianluigi
AU - Gagliardini, Roland
AU - Bossi, Anna
AU - Bella, Sergio
AU - Cimino, Giuseppe
AU - Cirilli, Natalia
AU - Viviani, Laura
AU - Iacinti, Eugenia
AU - Quattrucci, Serena
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - We have conducted a pilot trial of a home telemonitoring system involving 60 adult patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) enrolled at four Italian CF centres. Thirty randomly selected patients received a home device to perform spirometry and to measure oxygen saturation. The data were transferred to a data centre which forwarded them to the patient's CF clinic. The telemonitoring system was evaluated using questionnaires completed by patients and their doctors. The doctors reported that telemonitoring was useful in monitoring their patients' health status and in decreasing the CF centre workload. The data transfer procedure posed no particular problems for the patients. The major difficulties reported by the patients were night-time saturimetry measurements, and in the first week of the study, data transmission to the data centre. The pilot trial was positive and therefore merits a larger study.
AB - We have conducted a pilot trial of a home telemonitoring system involving 60 adult patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) enrolled at four Italian CF centres. Thirty randomly selected patients received a home device to perform spirometry and to measure oxygen saturation. The data were transferred to a data centre which forwarded them to the patient's CF clinic. The telemonitoring system was evaluated using questionnaires completed by patients and their doctors. The doctors reported that telemonitoring was useful in monitoring their patients' health status and in decreasing the CF centre workload. The data transfer procedure posed no particular problems for the patients. The major difficulties reported by the patients were night-time saturimetry measurements, and in the first week of the study, data transmission to the data centre. The pilot trial was positive and therefore merits a larger study.
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U2 - 10.1258/jtt.2010.091006
DO - 10.1258/jtt.2010.091006
M3 - Article
C2 - 20643846
AN - SCOPUS:78149231301
VL - 16
SP - 359
EP - 362
JO - Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
JF - Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
SN - 1357-633X
IS - 7
ER -