Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT04485832
Telehealth Could Mitigate Disease Progression Compared to Standard of Care in COPD - a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 168 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 40 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The objective of this randomised controlled trial is to test, whether telehealthcare can improve HRQOL and reduce emergency admissions and hospitalisations due to AECOPD. Different outcome parameters as described in the endpoints section will be analysed.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | Telehealth care | Patients in the intervention group daily answer 6 questions, which are focused on the recognition of AECOPD, using the electronic healthcare platform Evita by Swisscom, which has been and continuously is developed by the study team and Swisscom. The study team daily analyses all patients online and reacts according to a pre-specified action plan. |
| DIAGNOSTIC_TEST | Weekly CAT measurement |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2016-04-05
- Primary completion
- 2019-09-25
- Completion
- 2019-12-01
- First posted
- 2020-07-24
- Last updated
- 2020-07-24
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04485832. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.