Mobile Health Pulmonary Rehabilitation Compared to a Center-Based Program for Cost-Effectiveness and Effects on Exercise Capacity, Health Status, and Quality of Life in People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Sally L Wootton, Marita T Dale, Jennifer A Alison, Sarah Brown, Hannah Rutherford, Andrew S L Chan, Marlien Varnfield, Ian A Yang, Michelle Cunich, Sarah Dennis, Zoe J McKeough
PMID 37133445WHAT IT FOUND
This paper is a protocol for a future trial comparing home-based mobile health pulmonary rehabilitation to center-based programs in people with COPD.
It describes the planned methods and outcomes but reports no results.
What this paper is
This is a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial comparing mobile health pulmonary rehabilitation to center-based programs in people with COPD. It details the planned methods, outcomes, and analysis but reports no results, so there are no findings to act on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the detailed description of the mobile health program as evidence that it works. The trial has not yet been conducted or reported, so the effectiveness of this intervention remains unknown.