Telehealth Could Mitigate Disease Progression Compared to Standard of Care in COPD - a Randomized Controlled Trial

Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Device: Telehealth care; Diagnostic Test: Weekly CAT measurement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04485832

BASEC Nr. 2015-00065

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this randomised controlled trial is to test, whether telehealthcare can improve HRQOL and reduce emergency admissions and hospitalisations due to AECOPD. Different outcome parameters as described in the endpoints section will be analysed.

Enrollment: 168 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• COPD GOLD B-D and age ≥ 40 years

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to provide informed consent or to follow trial procedures

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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168 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Weekly CAT measurement

Device: Telehealth care

Control

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Weekly CAT measurement