Telehealth Monitoring in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Device: Telehealth monitoring system (Honni Med)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01522859

09/NIR01/26

Details and patient eligibility

About

The the aim of this study is to determine the benefits of Telehealth monitoring in the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Full description

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major burden on healthcare systems worldwide. The current management of patients with COPD includes well established interventions such as pulmonary rehabilitation and inhaled therapies which have demonstrated variable impact on reducing rates of exacerbation and improving health related quality of life.

Telehealth is a home monitoring system used to record clinical observations and carry out question and answer sessions. It has been proposed that Telehealth medicine may offer an alternative strategy to the overall management of these patients.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinical diagnosis of moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• a minimum of two: Emergency Department admissions; hospital admissions or emergency GP contacts in the 12 months previous to the study

Exclusion criteria

• any respiratory disorder other than COPD
• patients cognitively unable to learn the process of monitoring

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

standard care

No Intervention group

Description:

A standardised home based programme of specialist respiratory assessment and monitoring provided by the local Community Respiratory Team (CRT) and General Practitioner (GP) for a period of six months.

Telehealth monitoring

Experimental group

Description:

Daily monitoring of patient's health status using a small telecommunications device.

Treatment:

Device: Telehealth monitoring system (Honni Med)