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Effect of tele health care on exacerbations and hospital admissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized clinical trial

Author: Ringbaek, T. Country/countries: Denmark Number of patients participating in the study: 281 This study was focused on patients living with COPD
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Plus Intervention components: UCP
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Setting of implementation: Home-care, Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses Targeted self-management behaviours: Condition-specific behaviours
Intervention analysed in the study: Monitoring techniques Intervention components: E+MT
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Setting of implementation: Home-care Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses Targeted self-management behaviours: Asking for professional help or emergency care when needed, Communication with healthcare and/or social care providers, Condition-specific behaviours, Device management, Early recognition of symptoms, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Exacerbation Exacerbations N/A
Number of emergency room visits and admissions COPD-related hospital admissions N/A
Number of emergency room visits and admissions All-cause hospital admissions N/A
Number of emergency room visits and admissions Emergency room/department visits N/A
Number of emergency room visits and admissions Hospital days (Lenght of stay) N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 69.6 years (+/- a standard deviation of 9.5) Gender: 149 females Time since diagnosis of COPD: N/A Severity of the disease: 34.4 (+/- a standard deviation of 12.7) Multi-morbidity: Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI)
  • 1.8 (+/- a standard deviation of 1.5)

  • Number of co-morbidities: N/A

Level of health literacy: N/A
  • Tool: N/A

Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Outcome Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
Exacerbation - Exacerbations
Number of emergency room visits and admissions - All-cause hospital admissions
Number of emergency room visits and admissions - COPD-related hospital admissions
Number of emergency room visits and admissions - Emergency room/department visits
Number of emergency room visits and admissions - Hospital days (Lenght of stay)