Telemedicine for Patients With Chronic Respiratory Insufficiency

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

In unstable patients needing oxygen and/or home mechanical ventilation, a nurse-centred TM programme (supported by continuous availability of a call centre and a pulsed oxygen system) is cost/effective saving health care resources.

Clinical Trial Description

Background: Integrated care and strict follow up have been recommended for frail patients with chronic respiratory failure (CRF) discharged at home.

Objectives: To evaluate impact and costs on health care resources of a telemedicine programme (TM) for severe patients discharged at home with oxygen and/or home mechanical ventilation (HMV) with a high risk of hospital readmission.

Design: Prospective randomised controlled trial. Setting: Respiratory Rehabilitation Unit S. Maugeri Foundation between May 2004 and March 2007.

Participants: 240 CRF patients will be randomised into an intervention group (TM) and a control Group, which received current usual care (educational plan, 3 months outpatient visits).

Interventions: one year TM with continuous (h 24) on call accessibility to a nurse and/or a pulmonologist, a web-based call centre and a pulse oxymetry tracing.

Main outcome measures: survival, admissions to emergency room (ER), hospitalisations, urgent general practitioner (GP) calls, home relapses; probability to remain free from the above events will be also compared among groups. TM and health Care System costs as customer satisfaction will be also collected. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT00563745
Study type	Interventional
Source	Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	April 2004
Completion date	April 2007

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