Telemonitoring in Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Remote Pulse Oxymetry System.

"Consecutive patients with chronic respiratory disease referred for pulmonary rehabilitation are offered to participate in the protocol.~Patients are taught to use the system during the first session of aerobic training.~During 2 to 5 sessions of aerobic training (depending on the number of sessions needed to be autonomous), they are monitored in the pulmonary rehabilitation center with an oximeter device (Nonin 3150).~At the end of every session, patients are asked to answer to 3 questions on a Likert scale (see outcome session).~The therapist also ascertains wether the telemonitoring gateway successfully provided informations regarding the session.~The study takes off on the session during which the patients are autonomous in using the telehealthcare system.~If patients are not autonomous on the fifth session, the study also takes off."