Status:

COMPLETED

Assessing Adherence to Home Telemedicine in Individuals With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Lead Sponsor:

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Collaborating Sponsors:

Midmark Corporation

Monitored Therapeutics, Inc

Conditions:

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Eligibility:

All Genders

40-80 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

This is a single-site feasibility pilot study to determine if patients with COPD with an increased risk of exacerbation will use an in-home COPD telemonitoring system for three months that collects lu...

Detailed Description

This is a single-site, prospective, open label trial evaluating home telemonitoring for patients with COPD and a history of increased exacerbation risk. The purpose of this study is to determine wheth...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Male or Female patients
  • 40 to 80 years of age
  • English speaking
  • Spirometry confirmed COPD (post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC\<0.70) and post-bronchodilator FEV1% predicted \<80% at screening visit. (Target 50% of recruitment with post-bronchodilator FEV1\<50% predicted (severe obstruction))
  • Increased COPD exacerbation risk defined as either of the following in the prior 12 months:
  • One hospitalization for COPD exacerbation
  • Two outpatient COPD exacerbations requiring treatment with steroids and/or antibiotics
  • Signed informed consent

Exclusion

  • Unable to perform spirometry on their own following training.
  • Planned discharge to a nursing home or other extended care facility
  • Co-morbid conditions likely to result in non-preventable readmissions (e.g., terminal malignancy, cirrhosis or end-stage liver disease, chronic wound infections, etc.)
  • Uncontrolled or untreated medical conditions that would predispose the patient to recurrent COPD exacerbations (i.e., bronchiectasis)
  • Patient refusal to or inability to comply with monitoring requirements, for any reason including but not limited to dementia, a history of dementia, or other significant mental impairment
  • Patients enrolled in any other clinical trials or therapeutic studies of drugs, devices, or biologics

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 1 2020

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

May 24 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

12 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04369885

Start Date

July 1 2020

End Date

May 24 2021

Last Update

November 3 2021

Active Locations (1)

Enter a location and click search to find clinical trials sorted by distance.

Page 1 of 1 (1 locations)

1

Meadowmont Marsico Lung Research Center

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27517