ResApp Provides SMARTCOUGH-C-2 Study Update Brisbane, Australia,...

ResApp Provides SMARTCOUGH-C-2 Study Update Brisbane, Australia, 9 March 2018 -- ResApp Health Limited (ASX:RAP), a leading digital health company developing smartphone applications for the diagnosis and management of respiratory disease, today announced that recruitment of patients in its revised paediatric clinical study in the United States, SMARTCOUGH-C-2, is progressing well with 640 patients recruited across the three hospital sites. ResApp’s SMARTCOUGH-C-2 study is evaluating the efficacy of the ResAppDx smartphone application in the diagnosis of childhood acute respiratory disease using cough sounds. Independent quality assurance of the cough audio recordings has been performed on-site, as per the study protocol, and a sample of the audio recordings have been reviewed directly by ResApp. Both of these reviews will continue throughout the study to ensure that audio quality is maintained. “We are very pleased with the recruitment rate to date, which exceeds the rate we achieved this time last year, in part due to this year’s worse-than-normal flu season in the United States,” said Tony Keating, CEO and Managing Director of ResApp. “We also note that the improvements we made in training and processes are yielding high quality audio data and that our efforts to homogenise clinical adjudication practices have been well received by the participating hospitals and the independent clinical adjudication team. We look forward to obtaining solid, representative results from the study in the middle of this calendar year and rapidly progressing ResAppDx towards regulatory submission and commercialisation.”