NCT01489241

Short-term Telehealth Follow up After Hospital Discharge for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation

Renewing Health RCT in Central Greece for the Evaluation of Short-term Telehealth Follow up After Hospital Discharge for COPD Exacerbation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 155 (actual)
• Sponsor: Regional Health Authority of Sterea & Thessaly · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the introduction of a short-term telemonitoring program for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients discharged from the hospital after disease exacerbation produces benefits in terms of a reduction in hospital readmissions and health related quality of life. In addition the trials evaluate the economical and organisational impact of the services and examine their acceptability by patients and health professionals.

Detailed description

The purpose of this study is to the evaluate the use of a close phone-based tele-monitoring platform will reflected by less hospital re-admissions, will change their generic and disease specific quality of life compared with usual care. Following this; it is also hypothesized that this will also lead to less patients' deaths. In addition the patients' satisfaction using the telemedicine service will be studied. A Cost-Effective Analysis will evaluate the tele-health service compared with the usual care from the health and social perspective.

Conditions

• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Telemonitoring	Within 24 hours after patient's discharge, the telemedicine equipment is installed at the patient's home and patients are trained in the use of the equipment. Patients are followed by a dedicated telehealth centre. Patients at home are asked to fill out each morning the CAT questionnaire and to record extra use of COPD relief medications. Patients in stable conditions perform telespirometry and teleoximetry at 4 and 12 weeks. When a clinical worsening is detected (increase in CAT score by 5 points or higher on two consecutive days) the patient is contacted and asked to perform ad hoc telespirometry and teleoximetry and to send the data to the telehealth centre.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-11-01
• Completion: 2014-01-01
• First posted: 2011-12-09
• Last updated: 2015-02-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Greece