Comparability of a provisioned device versus bring your own device for completion of patient-reported outcome measures by participants with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: quantitative study findings

Highlights Historically, provisioned handheld devices [PD] have been provided to participants to enter patient-reported outcome (PRO) data during a clinical trial. Allowing participants to report data using their own smartphone or other internet-connected device (known as ‘bring your own device’ [BYOD]) is of growing interest. Measure completion was high for both device types when assessing daily and weekly compliance. Scores were found to be equivalent for both the Evaluating Respiratory Symptoms in COPD and COPD Assessment Test™ between PD and BYOD using 2 different methods. This study supports use of BYOD in addition to PD for collecting PRO data in COPD studies and contributes evidence that BYOD may be successfully employed in demographically diverse patient populations.