Study	Reason for exclusion
Aiken 2006	Management in hospital and COPD figures not separable
Balas 1997	Not asthma or COPD
Brooks 2002	Rehabilitation programme
Carrieri 2005	Not focusing on telehealthcare
Demiris 2003	Visits reviewed for technical quality
Donesky‐Cuenco 2003	Exercise focused, not telehealthcare focused
Egan 2002	Not telehealthcare, hospital based case manager and discharge planner
Farrero 2001	Not telehealthcare ‐ most visits were face‐to‐face
Gadoury 2005	Face‐to‐face visits
Griffiths 2005	Not telehealthcare ‐ expert patient intervention face‐to‐face
Hernandez 2003	Not telehealthcare ‐ home visits
Hibbert 2003	Not a randomised controlled trial ‐ qualitative study
Hopp 2006	Patients had multiple conditions and COPD was not included
Jerant 2008	Not COPD separable
Jimison 2008	Includes studies of different chronic conditions and all types of literature. Not RCT.
Mair 1999	Not a randomised controlled trial, small pilot study with 6 patients
Mair 2000a	Not limited to COPD and results not fully reported but summarised
Mair 2002	Full text not available, despite extensive search and contact with author
Mair 2005	Outcome measures of interest in this study were not reported
Maltais 2005	Not telehealthcare ‐ all interventions were face‐to‐face
Martens 2007	Not telehealthcare
Moore 2007	Exercise focused
Moxam 2007	The Effects of a Home Exercise Video Programme for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, not telehealthcare
Oh 2003	Not COPD
Pare 2006	Non‐randomised case‐control study
Petty 2006	Video library
Poels 2008	GP practice‐based
Rebuck 1996	The accuracy of a handheld portable spirometer, not telehealthcare
Ries 1995	Not telehealthcare
Ries 2003	Not telehealthcare
Sridhar 2008	Not telehealthcare
Tierney 2005	Not telehealthcare
Trappenburg 2008	Non‐randomised controlled multicentre study
Wasson 1992	Unable to see COPD data
Welch 2000	Only 30% of patients were "mixed respiratory", COPD patients were not identified
Whitten 2002	Covered multiple conditions