Short-term Telehealth Follow up After Hospital Discharge for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation (RHCluster4GR)

Regional Health Authority of Sterea & Thessaly

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Treatments: Procedure: Telemonitoring

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01489241

EC Grant Agreement 250487 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

FR2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the introduction of a short-term telemonitoring program for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients discharged from the hospital after disease exacerbation produces benefits in terms of a reduction in hospital readmissions and health related quality of life. In addition the trials evaluate the economical and organisational impact of the services and examine their acceptability by patients and health professionals.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to the evaluate the use of a close phone-based tele-monitoring platform will reflected by less hospital re-admissions, will change their generic and disease specific quality of life compared with usual care. Following this; it is also hypothesized that this will also lead to less patients' deaths. In addition the patients' satisfaction using the telemedicine service will be studied. A Cost-Effective Analysis will evaluate the tele-health service compared with the usual care from the health and social perspective.

Enrollment: 155 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Exacerbation of COPD according to the GOLD guidelines
• Age > 40 years
• Capability to use the devices provided
• Willing to participate

Exclusion criteria

included in previous COPD monitoring study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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155 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients in the control group receive usual care and visit the outpatient department at 4 and at 12 weeks after discharge when pulse rate, oxygen saturation and spirometry is performed. In the case of clinical deterioration during the study, the patients contact as usual their general practitioner. Usual care of COPD patients consists of regular visits to the specialist or primary care clinics every time a medication change is made or a medical examination is needed

Telemonitoring

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Telemonitoring