Table 1.
Description of included trails
| Source | Country | Mean (Age, y) | N | Setting | Male (%) | FEV1% | BMI (kg/m2) | Months of follow-up | Intervention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liu WT et al., 2008 [26] | China | 72.1 | IG:24;CG:24 | Single-center | 48(100.0) | 45.6 | 23.2 | 12 | Patients were asked to complete respiratory symptoms by a cell phone using a Java application software, before they started daily endurance walking training. |
| Chau JP et al., 2012 [25] | China | 72.9 | IG:22;CG:18 | single-center | 39(97.5) | 37.9 | NR | 2 | The ASTRI telecare system (AST): a device kit which includes a mobile phone, a respiratory rate sensor and a pulse oximeter, an online network platform, a call center and a networking system. Participants in the intervention group measured their oxygen saturation, pulse rate and respiration rate at home and sent the results to the online network platform by mobile phone. |
| Jehn M et al., 2013 [24] | Germany | 66.6 | IG:32;CG:30 | single-center | 48(74.4) | 51.4 | 27.3 | 9 | Tele-monitoring: COPD Assessment Test (CAT), daily lung function and weekly 6-minutte walk test (6MWT). The patients entered CAT by mobile phone (PDA system, MMA400). |
| Martín-Lesende I et al., 2013 [27] | Spain | 81.0 | IG:28;CG:30 | Multicenter | 34(58.6) | NA | NR | 3, 6, 12 | Tele-monitoring: daily transmissions from the patients’ homes of the following self-measured clinical parameters (such as blood oxygen saturation, blood pressure, heart and respiratory rates, body weight and temperature) using a smart phone- personal digital assistant (PDA). |
| Pedone C et al., 2013 [28] | Italy | 74.8 | IG:50;CG:49 | Single-center | 67(67.7) | 54.0 | NR | 9 | “SweetAge” monitoring system: A commercial cellular telephone was equipped with a software that allowed the reception of the data(oxygen saturation, heart rate, near-body temperature, overall physical activity) transmitted by the wristband and sent the data to the monitoring system. |
| Tabak M et al., 2014 [29, 30] | the Netherlands | 63.5 | IG:12;CG:12 | Single-center | 12(50.0) | 43.0 | 26.8 | 9 | Condition Coach: teleconsultation (module for comments and asking questions of the patient’s primary care physiotherapist and vice versa), Web-based exercising (including breathing exercises, relaxation, mobilization, resistance and endurance training, and mucus clearance), self-management and activity coach(A smartphone shows the measured activity cumulatively in a graph). |
| Tabak M et al., 2014 [29, 30] | the Netherlands | 66.6 | IG:14;CG:16 | Single-center | 19(63.3) | 52.6 | 28.8 | 1 | Tele-rehabilitation: (1) a smartphone (HTC P3600/3700) was used for activity coach; (2) web portal with a symptom diary for self-treatment of exacerbations and an overview of the measured activity levels. |
| Wang CH et al., 2014 [31] | China | 71.7 | IG:14;CG:16 | Single-center | 26(86.7) | 58.9 | 23.5 | 6 | Patients in the intervention group performed daily endurance exercise training under mobile phone guidance, and adherence was reported back to the central server. |
NR not reported, IG Intervention Group, CG Control Group