NCT05008081Recruiting
The CATALINA Study
An International Multi-centre Prospective Cohort Study in Patients Hospitalized for an Acute Exacerbation of COPD
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 22 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The CATALINA study is a prospective cohort study embedded within CICERO (Collaboration In COPD ExaceRbatiOns, a European Respiratory Society supported Clinical Research Collaboration), designed to collect standardised, longitudinal clinical data and biological samples in 20 centres across Europe and beyond.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 1000 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 6 Aug 2021
- Start date
- 25 Oct 2022
- Primary completion date
- Mar 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Wim Janssens
- Diseases
- COPD
- NCT number
- NCT05008081
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 1000
- From 25 Oct 2022 to the primary completion date, Mar 2027
- 22 sites in 11 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Patients not requiring treatment with systemic corticosteroids, antibiotics or both as a minimum therapy for the index AECOPD
Other
- Patients unwilling or unable to comply with study procedures
- Patients with a confirmed positive test result for COVID19, or those highly suspected based on clinical examination
Who the study is looking for
- Age 18 years and older
- Established diagnosis of COPD by medical doctor (based on clinical history OR pulmonary function test with an FEV1/FVC \< 0.7)
- Current hospitalization with suspicion of an acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD)
- Inclusion within 48 hours post hospital admission
- Voluntary written informed consent of the participant or his/her representative obtained prior to any study procedure
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (22)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Linz | Austria | Recruiting |
| University Hospital Vienna Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Vienna | Austria | Not yet recruiting |
| CHU St-Pierre Brussels Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brussels | Belgium | Recruiting |
| UZ Leuven Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leuven | Belgium | Recruiting |
| CHU UCL Namur - Site Godinne Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Yvoir | Belgium | Recruiting |
| LungenClinic Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Großhansdorf | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum Itzehoe Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Itzehoe | Germany | Recruiting |
| University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kiel | Germany | Not yet recruiting |
| University Medical Centre of Gießen & Marburg Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Marburg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Hospital Clinic de Barcelona Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Not yet recruiting |
| CHU de Lille Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lille | France | Not yet recruiting |
| Cochin Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Paris | France | Not yet recruiting |
| Glenfield Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leicester | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Guy's Saint Thomas Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Not yet recruiting |
| Royal Brompton Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| Churchil Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Oxford | United Kingdom | Not yet recruiting |
| University Hospital Of Ferrara Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ferrara | Italy | Not yet recruiting |
| UMC Groningen Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Groningen | Netherlands | Not yet recruiting |
| Maastricht University Medical Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Maastricht | Netherlands | Not yet recruiting |
| Sahlgrenska University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gothenburg | Sweden | Recruiting |
| University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Golnik | Slovenia | Not yet recruiting |
| Gazi University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ankara | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
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