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  1. Impact of prolonged invasive mechanical ventilation in extremely preterm infants on long-term neurodevelopmental and neurosensory outcomes: A narrative review

    Article • Early Human Development, June 2026, Elsevier

    PhD Rita Amaral

  2. Comparison of Allergic Rhinitis Treatments on Patient Satisfaction: A MASK‐air and EAACI Methodological Committee Report

    Article • Allergy, September 2025, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  3. Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test for Children (CARATkids): A systematic review and meta‐analysis of its measurement properties

    Article • Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, September 2025, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  4. Adherence to Treatment in Allergic Rhinitis During the Pollen Season in Europe: A MASK‐air Study

    Article • Clinical & Experimental Allergy, February 2025, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  5. Validation of the adult asthma epidemiological score: a secondary analysis of the EPI-ASTHMA population-based study

    Article • BMJ Open, November 2024, BMJ

    PhD Rita Amaral

  6. Concepts for the Development of Person-Centered, Digitally Enabled, Artificial Intelligence–Assisted ARIA Care Pathways (ARIA 2024)

    Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, October 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Maryam Al-Nesf, PhD Rita Amaral

  7. Patients’ health care resources utilization and costs estimation across cardiovascular risk categories: insights from the LATINO study

    Article • Health Economics Review, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Rita Amaral

  8. MASK-air: An OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Best Practice for Public Health on Integrated Care for Chronic Diseases

    Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, August 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  9. Poor Rhinitis and Asthma Control Is Associated With Decreased Health-Related Quality of Life and Utilities: A MASK-air Study

    Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, June 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Luís Filipe Azevedo, Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  10. Relevance of individual bronchial symptoms for asthma diagnosis and control in patients with rhinitis: A MASK‐air study

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, May 2024, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  11. Understanding beliefs about inhaled medication in patients with persistent asthma: a cross-sectional analysis of the INSPIRERS studies

    Article • European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, May 2024, Edra SpA

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  12. Association between pre-biologic T2-biomarker combinations and response to biologics in patients with severe asthma

    Article • Frontiers in Immunology, April 2024, Frontiers

    PhD Rita Amaral

  13. The impact of patient and public involvement in chronic respiratory disease research: the ConectAR experience

    Article • Breathe, March 2024, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  14. 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, Dr Rute Almeida

  15. ERS technical standard: Global Lung Function Initiative reference values for exhaled nitric oxide fraction (FENO50)

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, November 2023, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Fanny Ko, Professor Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan, PhD Rita Amaral

  16. Development and validation of novel individualized FeNO cut-offs

    Article • September 2023, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  17. Weight associates positively with FeNO in adult females but not males in a large healthy population-based sample

    Article • September 2023, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  18. 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, Dr Rute Almeida

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

    Article • Allergy, August 2023, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

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

    Article • Allergy, August 2023, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

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

    Article • Pulmonology, August 2023, Elsevier

    PhD Rita Amaral

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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, Dr Rute Almeida

  25. 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

  26. 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, Dr Rute Almeida

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

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

    Article • Allergy, November 2022, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

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

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, November 2022, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral, Ms Sian Williams

  34. 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

  35. Measuring adherence to inhaled control medication in patients with asthma: comparison among an asthma app, patient self-report and physician assessment

    Article • September 2022, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  36. Comparison of lung auscultation between smartphone and digital stethoscope in patients with asthma: a feasibility study

    Article • September 2022, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  37. Feasibility of an asthma app to monitor inhaler adherence in primary care: a 4-month prospective multicentre study

    Article • September 2022, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  38. Interrelationships between body mass index, total IgE, and blood eosinophils count in healthy subjects

    Article • September 2022, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  39. 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

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

    Article • Allergy, June 2022, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  41. Allergen sensitization associates with worse lung function parameters

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

    PhD Rita Amaral

  42. 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

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

    Article • Allergy, March 2022, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. Development and Validation of an Electronic Daily Control Score for Asthma (e-DASTHMA)

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  49. 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

  50. 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

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

    Article • September 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  52. Engagement with an asthma app to monitor medication adherence and its association with patients’ characteristics

    Article • September 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

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

    Article • September 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral

  54. 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, Dr Rute Almeida

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

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, June 2021, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  56. 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

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

    Article • Diagnostics, April 2021, MDPI AG

    PhD Rita Amaral

  58. 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

  59. 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

  60. 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

  61. 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

  62. 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

  63. 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

  64. Patient engagement with an asthma app to improve inhaler adherence

    Article • September 2020, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  65. Feasibility of an asthma app to monitor medication adherence

    Article • September 2020, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  66. 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

  67. 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

  68. 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

  69. Measurement of respiratory function with a mobile application: comparison with a conventional spirometer and evaluation of usability

    Article • September 2019, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Ana Pinheiro, PhD Rita Amaral

  70. Data-driven prescription patterns in patients under maintenance treatment for respiratory diseases from the Portuguese prescription database

    Article • September 2019, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Ana Sá-Sousa, Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

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

    Article • September 2019, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  72. 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

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

    Article • September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  74. Abstracts PDS

    Article • Allergy, August 2019, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr. Isabel Mafra

  75. 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

  76. 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

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

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Tiago Jacinto, PhD Rita Amaral

  78. 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

  79. 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

  80. 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

  81. Abstracts TPS

    Article • Allergy, August 2018, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral

  82. 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

  83. Automatic Quality Assessment of Smart Device Microphone Spirometry

    Article • January 2018, Scitepress

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  84. 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

  85. 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

  86. IV. Posters

    Article • Pediatric Pulmonology, June 2017, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral, PROF ADAEZE C. AYUK

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

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

    PhD Rita Amaral

  88. 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

  89. Phenotypes of airway diseases in preschool children

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

    PhD Rita Amaral

  90. 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

  91. 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

  92. 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

  93. 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

  94. Integrative genomic analysis identifies a role for intercellular adhesion molecule 1 in childhood asthma

    Article • Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, January 2014, Wiley

    Professor Luís Filipe Azevedo, PhD Rita Amaral