# Do Blood Tests Help to Decide Which Patients With Flares of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Need Antibiotics and Steroids?

> **NCT06929767** · PHASE4 · NOT_YET_RECRUITING · sponsor: **Ottawa Hospital Research Institute** · enrollment: 80 (estimated)

## Conditions studied

- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- COPD
- Exacerbation of COPD
- AECOPD
- ECOPD

## Interventions

- **OTHER:** biomarker-guided decision making
- **OTHER:** GOLD recommendations

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT06929767
- **Lead sponsor:** Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE4
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- **Start date:** 2025-09-01
- **Primary completion:** 2026-10-01
- **Final completion:** 2026-10-01
- **Target enrollment:** 80 (ESTIMATED)
- **Last updated:** 2025-04-16

## Collaborators

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## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06929767

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT06929767, "Do Blood Tests Help to Decide Which Patients With Flares of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Need Antibiotics and Steroids?". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT06929767. Licensed CC0.

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