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From: Hospital-admitted COPD patients treated at home using telemedicine technology in The Virtual Hospital Trial: methods of a randomized effectiveness trial

Figure 1

Photo of the telemedicine technology (TT) equipment used in the Virtual Hospital Trial (VHT). The photo illustrates the TT equipment used in the patients’ homes and consisted of the following items shown in the photo from left to right: The medicine box containing antibiotics, inhalation medicine, corticosteroids and sedatives; the electronic nebulizer used for inhalation medicine; the touch screen with a built-in webcam; the oxygen compressor on the far right standing on the floor;. the spirometer, pulse oximeter, and thermometer in front of the touch screen were used to send physiological measurements every day to the hospital. Also, the patient phone, which is carried by the nurse working in the acute emergency ward, is in front of the touch screen.

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