Telecommunication Via Cell Phones During Post-Operative Treatment After Lung Transplantation (TeleTx)

Hannover Medical School (MHH)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Lung Transplantation

Treatments: Device: Home spirometer w/o BT; Device: Home spirometer with BT-cellphone; Device: Home spirometry with data transfer via cell phone

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT00536926

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Details and patient eligibility

About

In an investigation should be evaluated in contrast to a control group with standard post-treatment therapy (using home spirometry) after lung transplantation if transfer of home spirometry recordings to the transplant center via cell phones will lead to less complications, cost savings and bigger constancy of therapy.

Full description

Home spirometry is used as a standard of care in lung transplant recipients in many centers worldwide. In case of deteriorating lung function response until therapy depends on patients efforts to reach the transplant center and the contactability of the transplant center.

Therefore transfer of home spirometry recordings to the transplant center via cell phones will lead to less complications, cost savings and bigger constancy of therapy compared to the home spirometry alone.

Enrollment: 56 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients after lung transplantation (single and double lung transplantation incl. combined organ transplantation) before hospital discharge

Exclusion criteria

• Dependency on long term care
• Restricted ability to communicate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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56 participants in 2 patient groups

A

Active Comparator group

Description:

home spirometry alone

Treatment:

Device: Home spirometer w/o BT

B

Experimental group

Description:

Home spirometry with data transfer via cellphone to clinical database

Treatment:

Device: Home spirometry with data transfer via cell phone

Device: Home spirometer with BT-cellphone