NCT00536926

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

Telecommunication Via Cell Phones During Post-Operative Treatment After Lung Transplantation - an Open, Randomised Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hannover Medical School · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Lung Transplantation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Home spirometry with data transfer via cell phone	home spirometry recording
DEVICE	Home spirometer with BT-cellphone	Data transfer of home spirometry recordings via bluetooth to clinical database.
DEVICE	Home spirometer w/o BT	Standard home spirometry

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-07-01
• Primary completion: 2008-11-01
• Completion: 2009-07-01
• First posted: 2007-09-28
• Last updated: 2011-07-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany