Telerehabilitation across sectors: The experiences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and healthcare professionals

Author

Dinesen, Birthe ; Grann, Ove ; Nielsen, Carl ; Hejlesen, Ole ; Toft, Egon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Health Sci. & Technol., Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark

fYear

2011

fDate

Feb. 28 2011-March 3 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to describe the qualitative perspectives of telerehabilitation as concerns the interaction between COPD patients and healthcare professionals. The case study approach is chosen as the overall research strategy for this study. A randomised study (n=111) has also been conducted. The paper conclude that telerehabilitation process becomes a learning process which is more than an individual cognitive process, since learning takes place in interaction with healthcare professionals, the family and network of the COPD patients.

Keywords

cognitive systems; diseases; health care; learning (artificial intelligence); medical computing; patient rehabilitation; pneumodynamics; telemedicine; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients; cognitive processing; healthcare professionals; learning processing; telerehabilitation processing; Communities; Diseases; Hospitals; Interviews; Monitoring; Systematics; COPD patients; Telerehabilitation; healthcare professionals; preventive integrated care; wireless technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology (Wireless VITAE), 2011 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0786-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WIRELESSVITAE.2011.5940878

Filename

5940878