NCT01951261

Early Assisted Discharge for COPD Exacerbations With Telemonitoring.

Early Assisted Discharge With Generic Community Nursing and Pulmonary Physicians vs Telemonitoring at Home for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 116 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dr. López Viña · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To determine if an early assisted discharge program for acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD), with telemonitoring and telephone control, is equally effective and more efficient in terms of use of health care resources, that a home care provided by hospital respiratory nurses and pulmonologists.

Detailed description

This study seeks to improve the health of patients with AECOPD by home care after discharge from the Hospital using the technology of the information and the communication. The investigators want evaluate the efficiency, satisfaction (patients, keepers) and effectiveness of a program of early discharge with home care in patients with AECOPD with telemonitoring and telephone control, in relation to the traditional protocol of home care based on nurse and pulmonologist visits.

Conditions

• COPD Exacerbation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Telemonitoring and telephone control	Early assisted discharge from hospital due to an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, with telemonitoring of vitals signs (oxygen saturation, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, temperature and electrocardiogram)and telephone control dairy (morning, evening)by the pulmonologist.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-03-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2013-09-26
• Last updated: 2020-10-14
• Results posted: 2020-10-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain