Increasing Adherence to Pulmonary Rehabilitation After COPD Related Hospitalizations



Status:Recruiting
Healthy:No
Age Range:40 - Any
Updated:3/8/2019
Start Date:January 20, 2018
End Date:November 1, 2023
Contact:Johanna Hoult, MA
Email:hoult.johanna@mayo.edu
Phone:5072931989

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This study will look at the effectiveness of a home-based Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program in
patients who have recently been hospitalized for a COPD related cause.

Despite proven benefits, the proportion of people with COPD who receive Pulmonary
Rehabilitation (PR) is very small. The current model of a center-based PR program fails to
address the needs of many patients with COPD. The most common patient barrier to attendance
is travel to center-based programs, particularly for frail patients with more severe COPD who
need transportation assistance. Home-based, unsupervised PR has been proposed as an
alternative model to hospital-based programs and has been found to be safe and effective. In
particular PR post-hospitalization has been reported as the most effective intervention to
prevent a hospital readmission; however, the reality is that many times this is not a
feasible intervention as only 4% of eligible individuals are able to adhere to PR after a
hospital admission (for multiple reasons).While COPD is responsible for nearly 700,000
hospitalizations annually, many of these hospitalizations, which account for a large
proportion of the annual direct medical costs of COPD, are potentially preventable
readmissions.

In this study we plan to add Health Coaching to PR to promote a behavior change to decrease
COPD re-hospitalizations and sustainably improve QOL. We propose a simple system of Remote PR
that may fill the practice gap.

Inclusion Criteria

- COPD related hospitalization and eligible for PR

- Exclusion Criteria

- Inability to walk (orthopedic-neurologic problems or confined to bed)
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Rochester, Minnesota 55905
507-284-2511
Phone: 507-293-1989
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