Laying the Foundation for Building a Resilient KPNC Community in the Face of Worsening Air Qualit… (NCT07118189) | Clinical Trial Compass
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Laying the Foundation for Building a Resilient KPNC Community in the Face of Worsening Air Quality Due to Wildfire Smoke
United States20 participantsStarted 2025-10-07
Plain-language summary
The overarching goal of this project is to conduct a pilot intervention in high-risk Kaiser Permanente Northern California patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to mitigate their exposure to poor air quality and decrease exacerbations of lung disease.
Who can participate
Age range65 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* KPNC patients
* enrolled in Care Plus
* non-smoking
* oxygen-dependent
* adults aged ≥65 years old
* have had membership for at least 1 year prior to data extraction not counting \</=3mo gaps)
* have known COPD (at least 2 encounters with COPD ICD codes over a 3 year period in the 10 years prior to data extraction using the following ICD codes: ICD-9 491.21, 491.22, 491.8, 491.9, 492.8, 493.2, 493.21, 493.22, 496 and ICD-10 J44.1, J44.0, J41.8, J44.9, J42)15
* have picked up at least 1 controller inhaler at the pharmacy within 1 year prior to data extraction
* at least 2 exacerbations of COPD treated in any setting (outpatient or acute care) within 1 year before to data extraction.
Exclusion Criteria:
* with \<1 year of continuous membership prior to the date they entered the cohort, allowing for 3-month, non-contiguous gaps
* any diagnosis with any of the past or present problems: blindness, dementia, deaf or hearing impaired, hospice admission, "tracheostomy" procedure code or problems and/or attached to a ventilator
* hearing, visually, physically, memory, and/or speech impaired
* those on the "Do Not Call" list
* non-English speakers.
What they're measuring
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feasibility (by percent of enrolled patients who complete all follow-up assessments)