International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 753064, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/753064
Research Article

Use of a Smartphone for Improved Self-Management of Pulmonary Rehabilitation

A. Marshall,1 O. Medvedev,2 and A. Antonov2

1School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
2Faculty of Basic Medicine, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119192, Russia

Received 4 October 2007; Revised 14 January 2008; Accepted 20 May 2008

Academic Editor: Robert Istepanian

Copyright © 2008 A. Marshall et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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