Tele-spirometry in Primary Care-Randomized Clinical Trial Cluster:Telemedicine in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (RESPIRANET-C)

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Other: Spirometry; Other: Spirometry - 20 weeks; Other: teleconsultation; Other: telemonitoring

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02901535

227190 COPD

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of telemedicine multifaceted intervention in symptoms patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Full description

This study is a randomized clinical trial for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from a primary care. The purpose is to determine the effectiveness of telemedicine (teleconsultation and telemonitoring) in control of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease symptoms.

Enrollment: 240 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• spirometry from TelessaudeRS-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (from randomization cluster), Modified Medical Research Council Dyspnea > 0

Exclusion criteria

• normal or restrictive spirometry, low quality spirometries (inadequate)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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240 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Spirometry in baseline Spirometry - 20 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Spirometry - 20 weeks

Other: Spirometry

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Spirometry in baseline Teleconsultation Telemonitoring Spirometry - 20 weeks

Treatment:

Other: teleconsultation

Other: telemonitoring

Other: Spirometry - 20 weeks

Other: Spirometry