Impact of Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Direct Healthcare Costs in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

A Retrospective Case-control Study Comparing the Direrct Healthcare Costs of Conventionally Managed COPD Patients With Those Who Have Completed a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01545128

Enrollment

Registered

2012-03-06

Start date

2009-01-31

Completion date

2010-01-31

Last updated

2012-03-06

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Conditions

COPD

Keywords

COPD, Pulmonary rehabilitation

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to study the direct cost of illness study of COPD patients who participated in a Pulmonary rehabilitation program for 8 weeks.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CONTROL

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

40 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* COPD

Exclusion criteria

* None

Outcome results