Short-term Telehealth Follow up After Hospital Discharge for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation

The purpose of this study is to the evaluate the use of a close phone-based tele-monitoring platform will reflected by less hospital re-admissions, will change their generic and disease specific quality of life compared with usual care. Following this; it is also hypothesized that this will also lead to less patients' deaths. In addition the patients' satisfaction using the telemedicine service will be studied. A Cost-Effective Analysis will evaluate the tele-health service compared with the usual care from the health and social perspective.