Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 1:00 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 1:00 PM
NCT ID:
NCT01951261
Brief Summary:
To determine if an early assisted discharge program for acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD), with telemonitoring and telephone control, is equally effective and more efficient in terms of use of health care resources, that a home care provided by hospital respiratory nurses and pulmonologists.
Detailed Description:
This study seeks to improve the health of patients with AECOPD by home care after discharge from the Hospital using the technology of the information and the communication. The investigators want evaluate the efficiency, satisfaction (patients, keepers) and effectiveness of a program of early discharge with home care in patients with AECOPD with telemonitoring and telephone control, in relation to the traditional protocol of home care based on nurse and pulmonologist visits.
Study:
NCT01951261
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01951261