Personalized COPD plans aim to cut repeat hospitalizations

NCT ID NCT04860375

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First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This study tests whether a detailed, personalized care plan—including diet, exercise, and counseling—can reduce hospitalizations and improve quality of life for people with COPD who have recently been hospitalized. About 110 adults aged 40 and older who smoke or used to smoke will receive tailored care and be compared to similar patients getting standard treatment. The goal is to see if this approach leads to fewer hospital stays over three years.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Not a phased trial

Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.

Participants

About 110 people

The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.

Started

Sep 2021

Expected to finish

Jun 2029

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

A government agency

The lead sponsor is a government body.

Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

40 to 100 years

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Male or female patients, aged ≥40 years. 2. Smokers or ex-smokers (≥10 pack-year). 3. Prior hospitalization because of progressively worsening dyspnea (associated or not with increased cough and sputum, and or sputum purulence), with a clinically suspected diagnosis of exacerbations of COPD that prompt the discharging physician to refer the patient to the COPD Center. 4. Signed informed concent form. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Presenting to the hospital for similar symptoms, which are not defined by the clinicians as suspected exacerbations of COPD, because of alternative diagnoses not related to patients with COPD (e.g., chest wall trauma, neurological disorders, sepsis, cancer and anemia). 2. Already enrolled in other studies perceived to interfere with this protocol. 3. In whom spirometry test is contraindicated (e.g., hemoptysis, detached retina, active tuberculosis). 4. Unable to comply with study procedures and follow-ups in the opinion of the Investigator (e.g., other severe diseases with short life expectancy or who make it impossible for the patients to participate into the study, evidence of alcohol or drug abuse, dementia, severe psychiatric disorder). 5. Acute myocardial infarction and unstable angina pectoris or arrhythmias requiring specific cardiology ICU. 6. Diagnosed stroke, dementia, degenerative neurological disorders or psychiatry disorders requiring specialized care. 7. At the discretion of the recruiting clinician would not be able to be considered for the study.

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Conditions

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • COPD-Center

    RECRUITING

    Gothenburg, VGR, Sweden

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