Home-based Treatment of Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) (COPD-HOME)

St. Olavs Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: COPD

Treatments: Behavioral: closer collaboration between hospital and primary healthcare system; Behavioral: usual care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00702078

17417

Details and patient eligibility

About

We want to improve the treatment of patients suffering from COPD (3-4) by early medical intervention in the patients home. A close cooperation between the hospital and the primary healthcare system will hopefully reduce hospitalisation, drug consumption and improve quality of life. Following up from the hospital and the primary healthcare in cooperation may lead to earlier detection and treatment of exacerbations in COPD.

The main outcome variable will be number of hospitalizations assessed simply by counting. The second objective will be Quality of life and activation assessed by different questionnaires included in St.George´s Respiratory Questionnaire.

Enrollment: 172 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 95 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinical diagnosis of COPD (III-IV)
• receive help from homecare nurse
• not suffering from any other serious disease, with expected lifespan less than 6 months

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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172 participants in 2 patient groups

usual care

Other group

Description:

follow-up according to todays best practice.

Treatment:

Behavioral: usual care

cooperation

Experimental group

Description:

Follow-up from the hospital and the primary healthcare in cooperation

Treatment:

Behavioral: closer collaboration between hospital and primary healthcare system