Martin J. Connolly

TL;DR: It was found that the mobile based applications have been widely developed in recent years with fast growing deployment by healthcare professionals and patients but despite the advantages of smartphones in patient monitoring, education, and management there are some critical issues and challenges related to security and privacy of data, acceptability, reliability and cost that need to be addressed.

TL;DR: Screening by saturation assessments detects 86% of aspirators/penetrators and should be followed immediately by bedside swallowing assessment, as the combination of the two assessments gives the best positive predictive value.

TL;DR: Investigating the possibility that older adults with obstructive airways disease frequently do not receive appropriate treatment in central Manchester found chronic airways obstruction is very common in adults in this inner city population, but is frequently overlooked.

TL;DR: The presence of depressive illness, and levels of both disability and impairment of quality of life are univariate predictors of 1-year mortality in this patient group, and may be useful in predicting prognosis for individuals and thus in guiding treatment decisions.

TL;DR: BPQ provides more valid assessment than CRQ of QoL in elderly COPD subjects and severity of disease in terms of its impact onQoL is not predicted by lung function tests, while the most important determinants of QOL are ADL score and emotional status.