TY - JOUR T1 - Development and feasibility of an eHealth-tool for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.02508-2017 SP - 1702508 AU - Catharina C. Moor AU - Mirjam J.G. van Manen AU - Nelleke C. Tak AU - Esther van Noort AU - Marlies S. Wijsenbeek Y1 - 2018/01/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2018/01/05/13993003.02508-2017.abstract N2 - Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive disease with a poor prognosis. The quality of life (QoL) of patients is often impaired [1, 2]. In other chronic lung diseases, the use of eHealth to improve clinical outcomes have been increasingly investigated [3–5]. Ehealth is defined as “the use of information and communication technologies for health” [6]. Use of eHealth may improve understanding of disease, promote self-management and facilitate longitudinal data collection for both care and research [3, 7]. Experience with eHealth-tools in IPF is scarce and people are often hesitant to start online initiatives in this mostly elderly population. However, collecting data at home and facilitating consultations at a distance, could hold great benefits for these patients as they often struggle to come to the hospital because of reduced mobility, dyspnoea and extra oxygen needs. Together with patients we developed IPF-online, an eHealth-tool for patients with IPF, and evaluated the feasibility and user satisfaction of this tool.Use of an eHealth-tool is feasible and highly valued by patients with IPFFootnotesThis manuscript has recently been accepted for publication in the European Respiratory Journal. It is published here in its accepted form prior to copyediting and typesetting by our production team. After these production processes are complete and the authors have approved the resulting proofs, the article will move to the latest issue of the ERJ online. Please open or download the PDF to view this article. ER -