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Wainwright, Claire; Wootton, Richard - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 11 (2003) 9, pp. 557-563

are comparatively few studies in asthma. Most of the telemedicine studies in asthma have investigated the use of remote … significantly reduced the number of emergency room visits by patients with poorly controlled asthma. Other studies have described … the cost-benefits of a specialist asthma nurse who can manage patients by telephone contact, as well as deliver asthma …

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Physician-Patient e-Visit Programs: Implementation and Appropriateness

Whitten, Pamela; Buis, Lorraine; Love, Brad - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 15 (2007) 4, pp. 207-214

Telemedicine and e-health includes the delivery of healthcare over a distance through the use of telecommunication technologies. One specific application is the use of `e-visits' within a clinical setting. e-Visits refer to any type of online patient-provider consultation where electronic...

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Evaluation of an Online Relapse Prevention Program for Bipolar Disorder: An Overview of the Aims and Methodology of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Barnes, Caryl; Harvey, Robin; Mitchell, Philip; Smith, … - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 15 (2007) 4, pp. 215-224

Bipolar disorder is a chronic relapsing remitting illness affecting 1-2% of the general adult population. Awareness of the limitations of pharmacological treatment for this disorder has encouraged the development of psychological treatments and a large body of evidence now exists demonstrating...

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Patient-Reported Outcomes, Patient-Reported Information: From Randomized Controlled Trials to the Social Web and Beyond

Baldwin, Mike; Spong, Andrew; Doward, Lynda; … - In: The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research 4 (2011) 1, pp. 11-17

Internet communication is developing. Social networking sites enable patients to publish and receive communications very easily. Many stakeholders, including patients, are using these media to find new ways to make sense of diseases, to find and discuss treatments, and to give support to...

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Information Technology to Support Self-Management in Chronic Care: A Systematic Review

Solomon, Michael R. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 16 (2008) 6, pp. 391-401

Informed individuals who are actively engaged in managing the daily challenges of their chronic disease are the change agents in a healthcare system that is presently unresponsive to the needs of this growing population. The application of information technology (IT) to support self-management...

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Computerised Protocol-Driven Prescribing

Holmberg, A. Niklas; Brenninkmeijer, Rob F. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 3 (1998) 3, pp. 105-114

An electronic prescription processing option for electronic medical records can assist medical practitioners in the rapid selection, decision-making, processing and recording of individual prescriptions during encounters with patients in the consultation room or for repeat prescriptions. The...

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Creating the Virtual Team: Application to Diabetes Mellitus Disease Management

Mazze, Roger - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 16 (2008) 3, pp. 145-153

The increased reliance on patient self-generated data has had a major impact on the development of the virtual team in the management of diabetes mellitus. Only recently has the concept of the virtual team been taken seriously in the management of the individual with diabetes, in part due to the...

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Initiatives and Barriers to Adopting Health Information Technology: A US Perspective

DePhillips, Henry A. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 15 (2007) 1, pp. 1-6

In recent years, US healthcare experts have increasingly agreed that the effective application of information technology (IT) can enable the industry to address its three most pressing concerns: an increase in medical errors, rising costs, and the fragmentation of care delivery. While other...

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A Parent-Child Dyad Approach to the Assessment of Health Status and Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Asthma

Ungar, Wendy J.; Boydell, Katherine; Dell, Sharon; … - In: PharmacoEconomics 30 (2012) 8, pp. 697-712

, reliability and responsiveness of a parent-child dyad approach to utility and HR-QOL assessment of paediatric asthma health states …. Abstract: Methods:Methods: The setting was specialist care in a hospital-based asthma clinic. Participants were 91 girls and … boys with asthma aged 8 to 17 years and 91 parents. The intervention employed was parent-child dyad administration of the …

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Patient Preferences for Community Pharmacy Asthma Services: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Naik-Panvelkar, Pradnya; Armour, Carol; Rose, John M.; … - In: PharmacoEconomics 30 (2012) 10, pp. 961-976

pharmacy-based specialized asthma services using a discrete choice experiment and to explore the value/importance that patients … place on the different attributes of the asthma service. The existence of preference heterogeneity in the population was … also investigated. Abstract: Methods:Methods: The study was conducted with asthma patients who had recently experienced a …

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