Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT04025242
Objective Assessment of Adherence to Inhalers by COPD Patients
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 244 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Beaumont Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Rationale: Objective adherence to inhaled therapy by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has not been reported. Objectives: To objectively quantify adherence to preventer Diskus inhaler therapy by patients with COPD with an electronic audio recording device (INCA). Methods: This was a prospective observational study. On discharge from hospital patients were given a salmeterol/fluticasone inhaler with an INCA device attached. Analysis of this audio quantified the frequency and proficiency of inhaler use.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2012-02-01
- Primary completion
- 2016-02-28
- Completion
- 2016-04-01
- First posted
- 2019-07-18
- Last updated
- 2019-07-23
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04025242. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.