Philips Study - remote cough monitoring in COPD
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Pilot study evaluating the utility of remote cough monitoring as part of a telemonitoring intervention in COPD.
IRAS ID
185122
Contact name
Alyn Morice
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Hull And East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 30 days
Research summary
COPD is associated with disabling, progressive symptoms with episodes of rapid worsening termed acute exacerbations (AE-COPD). It poses a significant global health challenge with AE-COPD often resulting in the use of unscheduled care services including hospital attendance and admission. In addition to trying to prevent AE-COPD, strategies have been developed to identify clinical deterioration early prompting intervention in the community with the aim of preventing unscheduled care service utilization.
Telemonitoring refers to the use of technology to monitor patients clinical condition in their own homes. One of the proposed benefits of telemonitoring is the early detection of clinical deterioration. At present, COPD telemonitoring relies on daily symptom reporting and monitoring of basic physiological data including heart rate and pulse oximetry. However, current strategies lack specificity resulting in difficulty identifying true exacerbations from normal day to day variation. A pilot study of remote cough monitoring has demonstrated that cough frequency is significantly increased during COPD exacerbation and trends in cough frequency can be detected using free-field microphones and automated cough counting software.
We will undertake a prospective pilot to assess the feasibility of remote cough monitoring to aid the detection of change in clinical condition as part of a telemonitoring intervention by comparing cough frequency trends with other physiological parameters and health service utilization.
REC name
North East - York Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/NE/0291
Date of REC Opinion
14 Aug 2015
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion