NCT04080570.

Study name	Remote physician care for home hospital patients
Methods	Study design: multi‐centre, open‐label, parallel individual randomised controlled trial in the United States Duration: 4 weeks Setting: 2 hospitals
Participants	Population: estimated 260 adults to be recruited from 2 hospitals in Massachusetts Baseline characteristics: unknown which characteristics Inclusion criteria: within 5 miles of ED, able to consent, has caregiver who can stay with the participant for the first 24 hours, primary diagnosis of COPD Exclusion criteria: undomiciled, on methadone, police custody, in nursing facility, domestic violence, acute delirium, end‐stage kidney disease, AMI, acute cerebral vascular accident, acute haemorrhage, primary diagnosis requiring multiple/routine administration of IV narcotics for pain control, unable to walk to bedside toilet unless help at home, CT, MRI, endoscopic procedure, blood transfusion, cardiac stress test, surgery, high risk of clinical decline
Interventions	Run in: initial in‐home visit by a physician Treatment arms Telemonitoring via video by a physician
Outcomes	Primary outcomes: adverse events Secondary outcomes: unplanned re‐admissions after first admission, Picker Experience Questionnaire score, global experience score
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Notes	Funding: Brigham and Women's Hospital Other identifier:NCT04080570