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  1. Multidisciplinary Development and Initial Validation of a Clinical Knowledge Base on Chronic Respiratory Diseases for mHealth Decision Support Systems

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, December 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    PhD Rita Amaral

  2. Patients' Satisfaction with Remote Asthma Medical Follow-Up Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • Telemedicine and e-Health, September 2023, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    PhD Rita Amaral

  3. UCRAID (Ukrainian Citizen and refugee electronic support in Respiratory diseases, Allergy, Immunology and Dermatology) action plan

    Article • Allergy, August 2023, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  4. MASK‐air® direct patient data support the ARIA‐MeDALL hypothesis on allergic phenotypes

    Article • Allergy, August 2023, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  5. Adherence to inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting β2-agonists in asthma: A MASK-air study

    Article • Pulmonology, August 2023, Elsevier

    PhD Rita Amaral

  6. Identification by cluster analysis of patients with asthma and nasal symptoms using the MASK-air® mHealth app

    Article • Pulmonology, July 2023, Elsevier

    PhD Rita Amaral

  7. Patient‐centered digital biomarkers for allergic respiratory diseases and asthma: The ARIA‐EAACI approach – ARIA‐EAACI Task Force Report

    Article • Allergy, June 2023, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  8. Symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients with persistent asthma: a cross-sectional analysis of the INSPIRERS studies

    Article • BMJ Open, May 2023, BMJ

    PhD Rita Amaral

  9. PAAI – Interactive online self-learning programme for patients with asthma: Protocol for co-creation and impact

    Article • Revista Portuguesa de Imunoalergologia, April 2023, Publicacoes Ciencia e Vida, Lda

    PhD Rita Amaral

  10. Development and validation of an electronic daily control score for asthma (e-DASTHMA): a real-world direct patient data study

    Article • The Lancet Digital Health, April 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Luís Filipe Azevedo, PhD Rita Amaral

  11. Cutoff Values of MASK-air Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

    Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, April 2023, Elsevier

    PhD Rita Amaral

  12. Unsupervised algorithms to identify potential under-coding of secondary diagnoses in hospitalisations databases in Portugal

    Article • Health Information Management Journal, February 2023, SAGE Publications

    PhD Rita Amaral

  13. Measuring adherence to inhaled control medication in patients with asthma: Comparison among an asthma app, patient self‐report and physician assessment

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, February 2023, Wiley

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  14. Digitally‐enabled, patient‐centred care in rhinitis and asthma multimorbidity: The ARIA‐MASK‐air®approach

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, January 2023, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  15. Multidisciplinary Development and Initial Validation of a Clinical Knowledge Base on Chronic Respiratory Diseases for mHealth Decision Support Systems (Preprint)

    Article • December 2022, JMIR Publications Inc.

    PhD Rita Amaral

  16. Consistent trajectories of rhinitis control and treatment in 16,177 weeks: The MASK‐air® longitudinal study

    Article • Allergy, November 2022, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  17. Real‐world data using mHealth apps in rhinitis, rhinosinusitis and their multimorbidities

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, November 2022, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  18. Academic Productivity of Young People With Allergic Rhinitis: A MASK-air Study

    Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, November 2022, Elsevier

    PhD Rita Amaral

  19. Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test: A systematic review of measurement properties and COSMIN analysis

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, September 2022, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  20. Comparison of rhinitis treatments using MASK‐air® data and considering the minimal important difference

    Article • Allergy, June 2022, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  21. Development and Validation of a Digital Image Processing-Based Pill Detection Tool for an Oral Medication Self-Monitoring System

    Article • Sensors, April 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  22. Behavioural patterns in allergic rhinitis medication in Europe: A study using MASK‐air® real‐world data

    Article • Allergy, March 2022, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  23. Allergen immunotherapy in MASK‐air users in real‐life: Results of a Bayesian mixed‐effects model

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, March 2022, Wiley

    Professor Luís Filipe Azevedo, PhD Rita Amaral

  24. Development and Validation of a Digital Image Processing-Based Pill Detection Tool for an Oral Medication Self-Monitoring System

    Article • February 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  25. What Do Physicians Think About the Use of Telemedicine to Recruit and Assess Participants in mHealth-Related Clinical Studies as a Consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

    Article • Telemedicine and e-Health, January 2022, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  26. The use of remote care during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic a perspective of Portuguese and Spanish physicians

    Article • European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, January 2022, Edra SpA

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  27. Assessment of the Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARAT) using MASK-air

    Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, January 2022, Elsevier

    PhD Rita Amaral

  28. Determinants of the Use of Health and Fitness Mobile Apps by Patients With Asthma: Secondary Analysis of Observational Studies

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, September 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  29. Phenotypes of persistent asthma in adolescents revealed different patterns in longitudinal asthma-related outcomes

    Article • September 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  30. Determinants of blood eosinophil count in adults from a large population-based study

    Article • September 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  31. Monitoring Adherence to Asthma Inhalers Using the InspirerMundi App: Analysis of Real-World, Medium-Term Feasibility Studies

    Article • Frontiers in Medical Technology, July 2021, Frontiers

    PhD Rita Amaral

  32. The influence of individual characteristics and non‐respiratory diseases on blood eosinophil count

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, June 2021, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  33. Feasibility and Acceptability of an Asthma App to Monitor Medication Adherence: Mixed Methods Study

    Article • JMIR mhealth and uhealth, May 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  34. A Systematic Review of Asthma Phenotypes Derived by Data-Driven Methods

    Article • Diagnostics, April 2021, MDPI AG

    PhD Rita Amaral

  35. Profiling Persistent Asthma Phenotypes in Adolescents: A Longitudinal Diagnostic Evaluation from the INSPIRERS Studies

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  36. What do physicians think about the use of telemedicine to recruit and assess participants in mHealth clinical studies as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic? (Preprint)

    Article • January 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  37. Prescribing patterns of medication for respiratory diseases cluster analysis of the Portuguese electronic prescription database

    Article • European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, January 2021, Edra SpA

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  38. Feasibility and Acceptability of an Asthma App to Monitor Medication Adherence: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)

    Article • December 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  39. Identification of clusters of asthma control: A preliminary analysis of the Inspirers studies

    Article • Revista Portuguesa de Imunoalergologia, December 2020, Publicacoes Ciencia e Vida, Lda

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  40. Determinants of use of health and fitness mobile apps by patients with asthma: secondary analysis of observational studies (Preprint)

    Article • November 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  41. Feasibility of an asthma app to monitor medication adherence

    Article • September 2020, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  42. Latent classes of adults with persistent asthma: data from the multicentre INSPIRERS studies

    Article • September 2020, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  43. Validation of app and phone versions of the Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARAT)

    Article • Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology, August 2020, Esmon Publicidad, SA

    Maria Luís Marques, Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  44. Where do we stand with asthma phenotypes derived from data-driven methods? A systematic review

    Article • September 2019, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  45. Reproducibility of the Vivatmopro measurements for exhaled nitric oxide values

    Article • September 2019, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  46. Automatic Quality Assessment of a Forced Expiratory Manoeuvre Acquired with the Tablet Microphone

    Article • September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  47. Combined Image-Based Approach for Monitoring the Adherence to Inhaled Medications

    Article • September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  48. Abstracts PDS

    Article • Allergy, August 2019, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr. Isabel Mafra

  49. Comparison of hypothesis- and data-driven asthma phenotypes in NHANES 2007–2012: the importance of comprehensive data availability

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Rita Amaral

  50. Quality assessment and feedback of Smart Device Microphone Spirometry executed by children

    Article • February 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  51. Real-Time Clinical Decision Support at the Point of Care

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Tiago Jacinto, PhD Rita Amaral

  52. Disentangling the heterogeneity of allergic respiratory diseases by latent class analysis reveals novel phenotypes

    Article • Allergy, December 2018, Wiley

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  53. A comparison of unsupervised methods based on dichotomous data to identify clusters of airways symptoms: latent class analysis and partitioning around medoids methods.

    Article • September 2018, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  54. Exhaled NO reference limits in a large population-based sample using the Lambda-Mu-Sigma method

    Article • Journal of Applied Physiology, August 2018, American Physiological Society

    Dr Tiago Jacinto, PhD Rita Amaral

  55. Abstracts TPS

    Article • Allergy, August 2018, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  56. Having concomitant asthma phenotypes is common and independently relates to poor lung function in NHANES 2007–2012

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tiago Jacinto, PhD Rita Amaral

  57. Automatic Quality Assessment of Smart Device Microphone Spirometry

    Article • January 2018, Scitepress

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  58. Cost of asthma in children: A nationwide, population-based, cost-of-illness study

    Article • Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr Manuel Ferreira-Magalhães, Professor Joao A Fonseca, Professor Luís Filipe Azevedo, PhD Rita Amaral

  59. Abstracts from the 11th Symposium on Experimental Rhinology and Immunology of the Nose (SERIN 2017)

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tiago Jacinto, Achim Beule, PhD Rita Amaral

  60. IV. Posters

    Article • Pediatric Pulmonology, June 2017, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral, PROF ADAEZE C. AYUK

  61. Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test for Children (CARATKids)

    Article • Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology, May 2017, Elsevier

    PhD Rita Amaral

  62. Use of the Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARATkids) in children and adolescents: Validation in Dutch

    Article • Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, December 2016, Wiley

    Professor Thys van der Molen, PhD Rita Amaral

  63. Phenotypes of airway diseases in preschool children

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, September 2016, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  64. High proportion of overlap between adult asthma phenotypes in a large population-based sample

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, September 2016, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  65. Assessment of asthma control using CARAT in patients with and without Allergic Rhinitis: A pilot study in primary care

    Article • Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia (English Edition), May 2016, Elsevier

    PhD Rita Amaral

  66. Asthma control in the Portuguese National Asthma Survey

    Article • Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia (English Edition), July 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Luís Filipe Azevedo, PhD Rita Amaral

  67. Validation of Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test for Children (CARATKids) - a prospective multicenter study

    Article • Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, March 2014, Wiley

    Professor Joao A Fonseca, Professor Luís Filipe Azevedo, PhD Rita Amaral