Feasibility and Utility of a Smartphone Application-Based Longitudinal Cough Monitoring in Chronic Cough Patients in a Real-World Setting

• Published in: Lung Vol. 201; no. 6; pp. 555 - 564
• Main Authors: Lee, Seung-Eun, Rudd, Matthew, Kim, Tae-Hwa, Oh, Ji-Yoon, Lee, Ji-Hyang, Jover, Lola, Small, Peter M., Chung, Kian Fan, Song, Woo-Jung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.12.2023; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Applications programs; Artificial Intelligence; Chronic Disease; Clinical trials; Correlation analysis; Cough; Cough - diagnosis; Cough - drug therapy; Cross-Sectional Studies; Feasibility Studies; Humans; lungs; Medical colleges; Medical research; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Medicine, Experimental; Mobile Applications; Mobile computing; mobile telephones; Monitoring; Patient monitoring equipment; Patients; Pneumology/Respiratory System; questionnaires; Smart phones; Smartphone; Smartphones; Surveys; time series analysis; Variability; Wireless telephone software; Patient-reported outcome; Chronic cough; Cough monitor; Cough frequency

Purpose This study evaluated the feasibility and utility of longitudinal cough frequency monitoring with the Hyfe Cough Tracker, a mobile application equipped with cough-counting artificial intelligence algorithms, in real-world patients with chronic cough. Methods Patients with chronic cough (> ...