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Effects of COPD Standardized Management on COPD Exacerbation

NCT04664491 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3456

Last updated 2025-05-31

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Summary

This is a multi-center, parallel-group,cluster randomised trial involving secondary hospitals across China. The objective is to evaluate the effect of COPD on reducing moderate-to-severe exacerbations during 12 months follow-up in primary-level medical institutions.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Standardized COPD management

In standardized management group, patients will receive a multifaceted and integrated disease management that follows recommendations in GOLD 2020 and China Guideline on COPD care. It contains the components below. 1. Maintenance therapy after initial treatment. In this study, patients' initial therapy is the prescribed inhalers at baseline. Maintenance therapy is the medications (LABA, LAMA, or ICS) prescribed for regular or long-term use after initial therapy. 2. Long-term follow-up and routine monitoring of symptoms measured by CAT, mMRC and SGRQ. 3. Regular pulmonary function testing for lung function monitoring 4. Strengthened COPD education 5. Behavioral modification, eg. encouragement of influenza/pneumococcal vaccination, providing smoking cessation counseling and pulmonary rehabilitation.

OTHER

Routine COPD management

Patients will undergo usual care according to current clinical practice in study sites. Usual care is the routine care provided to patients. Prescription and dispense of medicine for COPD initial and maintenance therapy will be at the discretion of doctors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • China-Japan Friendship Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chen Wang, MD, Ph.D · China-Japan Friendship Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-02-04
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2027-04-01

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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Diseases

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