TY - JOUR
T1 - A telehealth integrated asthma-COPD service for primary care
T2 - A proposal for a pilot feasibility study in Crete, Greece
AU - Tsiligianni, Ioanna G.
AU - Van Der Molen, Thys
AU - Tzanakis, Nikolaos E.
AU - Siafakas, Nikolaos M.
AU - Van Heijst, Ellen
AU - Lionis, Christos
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Background. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are considered underdiagnosed and misdiagnosed chronic diseases. In The Netherlands, a COPD-asthma telemedicine service has been developed to increase GPs' ability to diagnose and manage COPD and asthma. A telemedicine COPD-asthma service may benefit Greece as it is a country, partly due to its geography, that does not have easy access to pulmonologists. Findings. Therefore, a pilot feasibility study has been designed in Greece in order to establish this telemedicine service. Ten rural practices, in the island of Crete, with an average population of 2000 patients per practice will pilot the project supported by three pulmonologists. This paper presents the translated interfaces, the flowcharts and the steps that are considered as necessary for this feasibility study in Crete, Greece.
AB - Background. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are considered underdiagnosed and misdiagnosed chronic diseases. In The Netherlands, a COPD-asthma telemedicine service has been developed to increase GPs' ability to diagnose and manage COPD and asthma. A telemedicine COPD-asthma service may benefit Greece as it is a country, partly due to its geography, that does not have easy access to pulmonologists. Findings. Therefore, a pilot feasibility study has been designed in Greece in order to establish this telemedicine service. Ten rural practices, in the island of Crete, with an average population of 2000 patients per practice will pilot the project supported by three pulmonologists. This paper presents the translated interfaces, the flowcharts and the steps that are considered as necessary for this feasibility study in Crete, Greece.
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U2 - 10.1186/1756-0500-3-198
DO - 10.1186/1756-0500-3-198
M3 - Article
C2 - 20633265
AN - SCOPUS:77955380669
SN - 1756-0500
VL - 3
JO - BMC Research Notes
JF - BMC Research Notes
M1 - 198
ER -