Source: Annual Congress 2002 - Assessment of lung function, telemonitoring and quality of life
Disease area: Airway diseases

Abstract

Possible solution for achieving better long-term control of asthmatic patients is everyday sending of PEF results to the physician by particular kind of messaging service used in GSM mobile phones, called Short Message Service (SMS).
Thirty-four asthmatic patients, divided randomly in two groups (SMS group and Control group) were included in this study (21M, 13 F, medium age 24.6 years), all receiving ICS and LABA.
All patients had to measure PEF rates three times a day and to note their PEF results in asthma diary. Patients from the SMS group additionally had to send their PEF results via SMS to our dedicated GSM phone connected to the computer located in the hospital outpatient service.
Procedure was continued for 16 weeks. Pulmonary function tests were performed before and after the study. During the study, patients from SMS group received weekly average PEF-rate achieved during last week, specialist's advice concerning therapy and recommendation for controls.
Our results showed benefit for patients from SMS group, through better control of asthma, improved pulmonary parameters, lower hospitalization rate and improved symptom score.
This SMS-telemedicine system can give daily update of patient's condition to pulmonary specialist. Monthly cost of this telemedicine control is very acceptable for patients and specialists.
This SMS messaging method, if proved to be widely effective, can be organized nation-wide, for better control of asthmatic patients and faster for implementing of new therapeutic methods.
Based on our results we can conclude that telemedicine via SMS is very useful and affordable additional method for long-term control of asthmatic patients.

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V. Ostojic, B. Cvoriscec, S. Barsic Ostojic, Z. Tudjman, A. Stipic-Markovic (Zagreb, Croatia). Using of short message service (SMS) for long-term management of asthmatic patients. Eur Respir J 2002; 20: Suppl. 38, 1003

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