Telemedicine in patients with COPD: Feasibility and benefit of regular exercise testing via remote patient monitoring

Purpose: The six-minute walk test (6MWT) is used clinically to assess prognosis in patients with COPD. This study evaluates the feasibility of remote patient monitoring by placing hospital based function tests into a home based setting. We assessed if weekly self-administration of the 6MWT offers additional benefits in terms of clinically outcome. Methods: In this RTC patients with COPD are placed either into the telemedicine group (TG) or a control group (CG). Patient recruitment is currently on going with total study duration of 12 months. Remote patient monitoring includes weekly 6MWT recorded via acceleromet…