Remote Monitoring of COPD Patients Experiencing an Acute Exacerbation Through Health Evaluations Using Wearable Mobile Technology

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes about 3 million deaths annually and significantly burdens healthcare systems, costing the EU 38.6 billion euros, largely due to frequent hospitalizations triggered by acute exacerbations (AECOPD). AECOPD worsens patient health, accelerates lung decline, and lowers quality of life, highlighting the need for early detection. Moreover, these AECOPD events happen in an out-hospital setting and are therefore, not preventable. A clear clinical and quality-of-life need arises to reduce AECOPD-related events and consequent hospitalizations. Mobile health (mHealth) offers a solution by monitoring patients remotely using unobtrusive wearable devices. Parameters like peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) and respiratory rate can detect and predict exacerbations. However, no data at home is available of AECOPD events and robust predictive algorithms are lacking. This study aims to monitor vital parameters at home, tracking physical activity, pulse, respiratory rate, SpO2, sleep, and skin temperature from the moment of ER admission until three months post-discharge. Data will be used to gain insight in the COPD progression following an AECOPD event and to construct a predictive model, enabling timely intervention, reducing hospitalizations, and improving outcomes.

What you commit to

• Study type: Interventional
• Planned participants: 50
• From 1 Mar 2025 to the primary completion date, 3 Nov 2026
• 1 site in 1 country
• Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who the study is looking for

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

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