Towards telemedicine in pulmonary hypertension: Assessing the feasibility of remote quality of life and exercise capacity assessment.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Stubbs, Harrison; Brewis, Melanie; Church, Colin; Johnson, Martin
- Source
- Pulmonary Circulation. Oct2022, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p1-3. 3p.
- Subject
- *PULMONARY hypertension
*AEROBIC capacity
*TELEMEDICINE
*QUALITY of life
*HYPERTENSION
- Language
- ISSN
- 2045-8932
Patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) are happy to perform simple exercise capacity tests at home and believe this is feasible. A proportion of patients are able to use an electronic form to complete quality of life questionnaires. These findings are being used to build a telemedicine strategy for PH patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]