A cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating a novel interdisciplinary community-based intervention aimed at screening, diagnosing and managing COPD in adult long-term smokers in primary care, compared with usual care, to improve health-related quality of life.

Monash University0 sites280 target enrollmentOctober 31, 2014

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

October 31, 2014

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

6 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•Current and ex\-smokers of at least 10 packs years, including those with an existing diagnosis of COPD, aged 40 years or older, who had 2 or more visits to the practice in the previous 12 months. Those with an existing diagnosis of COPD but no smoking history will also be eligible.

•Those with a terminal illness (anticipated survival \<12 months), those unable to provide informed consent (e.g. cognitive impairment), those with pre\-existing interstitial lung disease, unstable cardiovascular status, comorbidities preventing participation in an exercise training program or contraindications to spirometry (including abdominal/thoracic/neuro\-/ocular surgery in past 6 weeks, pneumothorax in past 6 weeks, haemoptysis of unknown origin, open pulmonary TB, thoracic/abdominal/cerebral aneurysms, angiogram in previous 24 hours, recent pulmonary embolus and those listed in the ATS/ERS 2005 guidelines). Those patients who have completed a pulmonary rehabilitation program in the previous 24 months will also be excluded from the study.