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Table 2 Daily questionnaire performed by COPD patients, and evaluated by TM nurses [48]

From: Advancing beyond the system: telemedicine nurses’ clinical reasoning using a computerised decision support system for patients with COPD – an ethnographic study

Question

Response

1 How do you feel today?

As usual

Worse

Much worse

2 How is your breathing today?

As usual

Worse

Much worse

3 How is your amount of sputum today?

As usual

Worse

Much worse

4 What is the colour of your sputum today?

No sputum/Clear/White/

Yellow/Green/Brown

5 Are you using rescue medication/nebulisera or oxygen today?

No

As usual

More than usual

Much more than usual

6 Have you started up with additional antibiotics after last discharge?

No

Yes

7 Have you started up with new Prednisoloneb after last discharge?

No

Yes

  1. aRescue medication/nebuliser; inhalation medicine for breathing treatment
  2. bPrednisolone; a steroid, used to treat various conditions including breathing disorders