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JOURNAL ARTICLE
MULTICENTER STUDY
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
An international randomized study of a home-based self-management program for severe COPD: the COMET.
INTRODUCTION: Most hospitalizations and costs related to COPD are due to exacerbations and insufficient disease management. The COPD patient Management European Trial (COMET) is investigating a home-based multicomponent COPD self-management program designed to reduce exacerbations and hospital admissions.
DESIGN: Multicenter parallel randomized controlled, open-label superiority trial.
SETTING: Thirty-three hospitals in four European countries.
PARTICIPANTS: A total of 345 patients with Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease III/IV COPD.
INTERVENTION: The program includes extensive patient coaching by health care professionals to improve self-management (eg, develop skills to better manage their disease), an e-health platform for reporting frequent health status updates, rapid intervention when necessary, and oxygen therapy monitoring. Comparator is the usual management as per the center's routine practice.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Yearly number of hospital days for acute care, exacerbation number, quality of life, deaths, and costs.
DESIGN: Multicenter parallel randomized controlled, open-label superiority trial.
SETTING: Thirty-three hospitals in four European countries.
PARTICIPANTS: A total of 345 patients with Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease III/IV COPD.
INTERVENTION: The program includes extensive patient coaching by health care professionals to improve self-management (eg, develop skills to better manage their disease), an e-health platform for reporting frequent health status updates, rapid intervention when necessary, and oxygen therapy monitoring. Comparator is the usual management as per the center's routine practice.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Yearly number of hospital days for acute care, exacerbation number, quality of life, deaths, and costs.
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