Feasibility and Effectiveness of Telehealth in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Taiwan

National Taiwan University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Other: Telehealth program; Other: Usual care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01724684

201106097RB

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recent studies have demonstrated the promising potential that telehealth has in management of chronic disease. For COPD patients, implementation of telehealth reduced readmissions, emergency room visits, and exacerbations and was cost-effective. Telehealth as a method of delivering healthcare to remote, resource-deprived areas is not lacking in evidence of benefit; however, the situation about its more widespread use for monitoring purposes is much less clear. To date, most of the studies dealing with telehealth in COPD were conducted in countries covering vast territories. Therefore, it needs to be investigated whether telehealth conveys similar advantages for COPD patients in a small island country.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Age 20 or more

Exclusion criteria

• Discharge against medical advice
• Enrolled in other trials
• Not being discharged to home
• Unconsciousness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Telehealth program

Other group

Description:

Telehealth program service

Treatment:

Other: Telehealth program

Usual care

Other group

Description:

Usual care service

Treatment:

Other: Usual care