Clinical trials: ECOPD
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, COPD
Do Blood Tests Help to Decide Which Patients With Flares of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Need Antibiotics and Steroids?
The goal of this clinical trial is to see if the use of two simple blood tests: C reactive protein and eosinophils, can reduce the use of steroids and antibiotics in patients with flares of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease…
- Conditions
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, COPD, Exacerbation of COPD, AECOPD
- Trial name
- Bidex (NCT06929767)
- Testing
- biomarker-guided decision making, GOLD recommendations
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute