Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:30 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:30 AM
NCT ID:
NCT00463567
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Male and female adults aged ≥ 40 years, who have signed an Informed Consent Form prior to initiation of any study-related procedure
* Co-operative outpatients with a diagnosis of COPD (moderate to severe as classified by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (GOLD) Guidelines, 2005) and:
* Smoking history of at least 20 pack years
* Post-bronchodilator FEV1 \< 80% and ≥ 30% of the predicted normal value.
* Post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC \< 70% (Post refers to within 30 min of inhalation of 400 µg of salbutamol)
Exclusion Criteria:
* Pregnant or lactating females
* Patients who have been hospitalized for a COPD exacerbation in the 6 weeks prior to Visit 1 or during the run-in period
* Patients requiring long term oxygen therapy (\> 15 h a day)
* Patients who have had a respiratory tract infection 6 weeks prior to V1 (with further criteria)
* Patients with concomitant pulmonary disease, pulmonary tuberculosis, or clinically significant bronchiectasis
* Patients with a history of asthma (with further criteria)
* Patients with Type I or uncontrolled Type II diabetes
* Patients with contraindications for tiotropium
* Patients who have clinically relevant laboratory abnormalities or a clinically significant abnormality
* Any patient with active cancer or a history of cancer with less than 5 years disease free survival time
* Patients with a history of long QT syndrome or whose QTc interval is prolonged
* Patients with a hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs or drugs with similar chemical structures
* Patients who have had treatment with the investigational drug (with further criteria)
* Patients who have had live attenuated vaccinations within 30 days prior to visit 1, or during run-in period
* Patients with known history of non compliance to medication
* Patients unable to satisfactorily use a dry powder inhaler device or perform spirometry measurements
Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
40 Years
Study:
NCT00463567
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00463567