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Trial reportInternational journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease2018

Effect of tele-health care on quality of life in patients with severe COPD: a randomized clinical trial.

Oliver D Tupper, Thorbjørn L Gregersen, Thomas Ringbaek, Eva Brøndum, Ejvind Frausing, Allan Green, Charlotte S Ulrik

Open access · goldAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 9 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. What conservative interventions can improve the long-term quality of life, depression, and anxiety of individuals with stable COPD? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Oliver D TupperDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, csulrik@dadlnet.dk.
Thorbjørn L GregersenDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, csulrik@dadlnet.dk.
Thomas RingbaekDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, csulrik@dadlnet.dk.
Eva BrøndumDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, csulrik@dadlnet.dk.
Ejvind FrausingDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, csulrik@dadlnet.dk.
Allan GreenDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, csulrik@dadlnet.dk.
Charlotte S UlrikDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, csulrik@dadlnet.dk.
Hvidovre Hospital · DKUniversity of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background and objective: Telemonitoring (TM) of patients with COPD has gained much interest, but studies have produced conflicting results. We aimed to investigate the effect of TM with the option of video consultations on quality of life (QoL) in patients with severe COPD. Patients and methods: COPD patients at high risk of exacerbations were eligible for the 6-month study and a total of 281 patients were equally randomized to either TM (n=141) or usual care (n=140). TM comprised recording of symptoms, oxygen saturation, spirometry, and video consultations. Algorithms generated alerts if readings breached thresholds. Both groups filled in a health-related QoL questionnaire (15D Results: Most of the enrolled patients had severe COPD (86% with Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease stage 3 or 4 and 45% with admission for COPD within the last year, respectively). No difference in drop-out rate and mortality was found between the groups, and likewise there was no difference in 15D or CAT at baseline. At 6 months, a significant improvement of 0.016 in 15D score ( Conclusion: Compared to the nonintervention group, TM as an add-on to usual care over a 6-month period improved QoL, as assessed by the 15D questionnaire, in patients with severe COPD, whereas no difference between groups was observed in CAT score.

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Quality of LifeTelemedicineAgedAlgorithmsDisease ProgressionFemaleHumansMaleMonitoring, PhysiologicPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveSpirometrySurveys and QuestionnairesCOPDquality of lifetele–health carevideo consultations

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PMID30214183
PMCPMC6122889
OpenAlexW2889106441

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