Course of normal and abnormal fatigue in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and its relationship with domains of health status

JB Peters, YF Heijdra, L Daudey, LM Boer… - Patient education and …, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To examine the difference between patients with normal and patients with
abnormal fatigue on aspects of health status, and investigate the natural course of fatigue in …

Assessing the stages of the grieving process in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): validation of the Acceptance of Disease and Impairments …

LM Boer, L Daudey, JB Peters, J Molema… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Background Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) encounter many (gradual)
losses due to their disease, which trigger a grieving process. This process is …

[HTML][HTML] A smart mobile health tool versus a paper action plan to support self-management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations: randomized …

L Boer, E Bischoff, M van der Heijden… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2019 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background Many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) suffer from
exacerbations, a worsening of their respiratory symptoms that warrants medical treatment. …

A comparison between discrete and continuous time Bayesian networks in learning from clinical time series data with irregularity

…, F Stella, A Hommersom, PJF Lucas, L Boer… - Artificial intelligence in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Recently, mobile devices, such as smartphones, have been introduced into
healthcare research to substitute paper diaries as data-collection tools in the home environment…

[HTML][HTML] Integral health status-based cluster analysis in moderate–severe COPD patients identifies three clinical phenotypes: relevant for treatment as usual and …

JB Peters, LM Boer, J Molema, YF Heijdra… - International journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose The purposes of the study are to identify clinical phenotypes that reflect the level of
adaptation to the disease and to examine whether these clinical phenotypes respond …

Validation of ACCESS: an automated tool to support self-management of COPD exacerbations

LM Boer, M van der Heijden… - … journal of chronic …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background To support patients with COPD in their self-management of symptom worsening,
we developed Adaptive Computerized COPD Exacerbation Self-management Support (…

Validity of an automated telephonic system to assess COPD exacerbation rates

EWMA Bischoff, LM Boer, J Molema… - European …, 2012 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Current tools for recording chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations are
limited and often lack validity testing. We assessed the validity of an automated telephonic …

How do dyspnoea scales compare with measurement of functional capacity in patients with COPD and at risk of COPD?

LM Boer, GM Asijee, OCP Van Schayck… - Primary Care …, 2012 - nature.com
Background: In primary care, formal functional capacity testing is not always feasible. Guidelines
for family practitioners suggest the use of dyspnoea scales to assess exercise tolerance …

Effects of Adherence to an mHealth Tool for Self-Management of COPD Exacerbations

EWMA Bischoff, N Ariens, L Boer… - … Journal of Chronic …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Poor adherence to COPD mobile health (mHealth) has been reported, but its
association with exacerbation-related outcomes is unknown. We explored the effects of mHealth …

Decline of health status sub-domains by exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a prospective survey

T Verhage, L Boer, J Molema, Y Heijdra, R Dekhuijzen… - Respiration, 2013 - karger.com
Background: Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are held
responsible for a decline in health status (HS). This may not apply equally to all exacerbations, …