Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Conditions
Brief summary
Recent studies have demonstrated the promising potential that telehealth has in management of chronic disease. For COPD patients, implementation of telehealth reduced readmissions, emergency room visits, and exacerbations and was cost-effective. Telehealth as a method of delivering healthcare to remote, resource-deprived areas is not lacking in evidence of benefit; however, the situation about its more widespread use for monitoring purposes is much less clear. To date, most of the studies dealing with telehealth in COPD were conducted in countries covering vast territories. Therefore, it needs to be investigated whether telehealth conveys similar advantages for COPD patients in a small island country.
Interventions
OTHERTelehealth program
OTHERUsual care
Sponsors
National Taiwan University Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease * Age 20 or more
Exclusion criteria
* Discharge against medical advice * Enrolled in other trials * Not being discharged to home * Unconsciousness
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Number of Participants with Hospital Readmission at 6 months | 6 months |
Countries
Taiwan
Contacts
Primary ContactChun-Ta Huang, MD
Outcome results
None listed