Exploring the feasibility of using remote respiratory monitoring to detect and manage exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The study explored the accuracy and utility of respiratory rate home-monitoring in COPD using new non-intrusive methods. The study was split into three phases. Phase 1 aimed to ascertain whether the measurement of respiratory rate with less intrusive methods agrees with gold standard measures. Phase 2 aimed to see how reliably such devices measure and store data in the home setting and to explore the participant experience of using the devices. Phase 3 aimed to assess how respiratory rate changes as people recover from exacerbations of COPD and the relationship to symptoms and oxygen saturation and pulse rate. This helped establish whether changes in respiratory rate at different points in the course of an exacerbation are likely to be of a scale that is reliably detected by current systems and enable us to decide if larger prospective studies investigating the onset of exacerbations are likely to be viable. Image Chief Investigator: Prof Brian McKinstry Number and location of participating sites (by region/ country): UK 1 site Funder: Chief Scientist Office Start and End date of grant award: 01/03/2013 to 31/03/2015 Current Status: Completed Sponsor: ACCORD Chief Investigator: Prof Brian McKinstry, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh. Trial manager: Lucy McLoughan Telescot ECTU Involvement: Statistics This article was published on 2024-09-24
