Changes in Physical Functioning in Patients With COPD During Therapy With a Combination Inhalation Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The decrease in physical activity due to increasing dyspnoea that over time leads to a steadily worsening condition and increasing restriction of physical functioning is a key problem for COPD patients and affects even the early stages.

Clinical studies to investigate both Spiriva® and Striverdi® Respimat® have demonstrated a marked improvement in physical exercise capacity.

However, there have so far been no data from the daily practice setting about everyday functioning on combination treatment with Spiriva® Respimat® plus Striverdi® Respimat® or Spiriva® 18 Mikrogramm plus Striverdi® Respimat® in patients requiring treatment with 2 long-acting bronchodilators.

The objective of this NIS is to measure changes in physical functioning as a surrogate for physical activity and exercise capacity in COPD patients on treatment with Spiriva® Respimat® plus Striverdi® Respimat® or Spiriva® 18 Mikrogramm plus Striverdi® Respimat® in routine daily treatment (so-called real life setting).

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Boehringer Ingelheim
• Treatments: Olodaterol; Tiotropium Bromide

Criteria

Inclusion criteria:

• Female and male patients >= 40 years

• COPD GOLD 2014 B - D

• Treatment with Spiriva® Respimat® plus Striverdi® Respimat® or Spiriva® 18 Microgramm plus Striverdi® Respimat® acc. to the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC), no change of routine diagnostics and treatment

• Signed informed consent form before inclusion into the non-interventional study (NIS)

Exclusion criteria:

• Patients with contraindications acc. to the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC)

• pregnant and breastfeeding women

• patients who are taking part in a different non-interventional study (NIS) or an interventional clinical study at the same time are not to be enrolled