Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Prof Frances Mair
ORCID ID
Contact details
Department of General Practice and Primary Care
Division of Community-based Sciences
1 Horselethill Road
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 9LX
United Kingdom
fm46c@clinmed.gla.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
ACTRIGHT
Study hypothesis
To compare a telecare intervention with traditional home care delivered by nurses to patients with acute exacerbations of COAD
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Condition
Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease (COAD)
Intervention
Telecare delivered in patient's own home versus traditional nurse visits.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
1. Respiratory-related Quality of Life
2. Economic outcomes
Secondary outcome measures
1. Nurse and patient satisfaction measures
2. Quality and reliability of equipment
Overall trial start date
01/10/2001
Overall trial end date
30/09/2005
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Patients referred to Accident and Emergency (A&E) for assessment, following exacerbation of COAD. Inclusion criteria include forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) <80% predicted, Systolic blood pressure (BP) >100 mmHg, pH >7.4, pO2 >6.7 kPa
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
200 across intervention (telecare) and control (home care) arms
Participant exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria include pneumothorax, uncontrolled left ventricular failure (LVF), acute electrocardiogram (ECG) changes, asthma, pneumonia, and previous participation in trial.
Recruitment start date
01/10/2001
Recruitment end date
30/09/2005
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Department of General Practice and Primary Care
Glasgow
G12 9LX
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
North Liverpool Primary Care Trust (UK)
Sponsor details
Cottage 2
Newhall Campus
Longmoor Lane
Liverpool
L10 1LD
United Kingdom
+44 (0)151 293 1900
enquiries@northliverpoolpct.nhs.uk
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
NHS Modernisation Fund
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Funder name
NHS R&D Support Funding
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary
1. 2005 preliminary results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16036011
2. 2008 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18583448
Publication citations
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Preliminary results
Mair FS, Goldstein P, May C, Angus R, Shiels C, Hibbert D, O'Connor J, Boland A, Roberts C, Haycox A, Capewell S, Patient and provider perspectives on home telecare: preliminary results from a randomized controlled trial., J Telemed Telecare, 2005, 11 Suppl 1, 95-97, doi: 10.1258/1357633054461976.
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Results
Mair FS, Hiscock J, Beaton SC, Understanding factors that inhibit or promote the utilization of telecare in chronic lung disease., Chronic Illn, 2008, 4, 2, 110-117, doi: 10.1177/1742395308092482.