Use of MonitorMe in COPD

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN · Sep 26, 2019

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients
• • Adults diagnosed with any severity of COPD (according to British Thoracic Society criteria, i.e. \>10 pack year smoking history and post bronchodilator spirometry FEV1/FVC ratio \<0.70 and FEV\<80%)
• • Listed on referral lists or COPD registers within Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust or NHS South West Lincolnshire CCG
• • Health care professionals
• • Involved in implementing the device within Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust or NHS South West Lincolnshire CCG
• • Provide informed consent to participate in an interview
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients
• • Inability or unwillingness to sign informed consent
• • No active telephone line in home
• • COPD exacerbation within the previous 6 weeks.
• • Mental health, cognitive or neurological conditions that would make study participation inappropriate
• • Life expectancy \< 6 months
• • Implanted pacemaker
• • Hearing or visual ailments that would preclude the use of the MonitorMe device
• • Inability to use both hands (i.e. hold handset in one hand and use keypad with the other at same time)
• • Inability to understand verbal English
• • Health care professionals
• • Not involved in implementing the device within Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust or NHS South West Lincolnshire CCG
• • Unable/unwilling informed consent to participate in an interview