Medical Xpress April 30, 2025
A smartphone app can help asthma patients better track their symptoms and live healthier, a new study says.
The app helps patients monitor their symptoms in between visits with their doctor, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.
People given the app experienced improvements in their quality of life during a 20-month period, researchers found.
“Overall, these data suggest that the between-visit symptom monitoring led to an average improvement in asthma quality of life among study patients, although this improvement did not meet the threshold of a minimally important change,” concluded the research team led by Robert Rudin, a senior information scientist with the non-profit RAND research group.
“However, the intervention showed potential benefits for certain subgroups and may be useful...
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