Using the internet to help individuals stay healthy and prevent further reductions in health from existing chronic diseases

INTERVENTION: Intervention group: In addition to usual care, access to the COPD web‐based self‐management system including educational COPD content, personal medical information such demographic, drug and medical visit information. Control group: Usual care Duration: 12 months CONDITION: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) ; Respiratory ; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, unspecified PRIMARY OUTCOME: 1. Improvement in patients' adherence to action plan in the event of exacerbation; 2. Action plan adherence defined as the patient taking antibiotic or prednisolone within three days of starting an acute exacerbation SECONDARY OUTCOME: 1. Medication adherence; 2. COPD self‐efficacy; 3. COPD specific health‐related quality of life (chronic respiratory questionnaire, St George's respiratory questionnaire); 4. Adverse events (number of respiratory emergency deparment visits and hospitalisations) INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1. Males and females patients with stable COPD aged 40 years and older 2. Patients who started the "Living Well with COPD" program 3. Have access to a computer and internet 4. Current or previous smoker (at least 10 packs per year) 5. Forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) after the use of a bronchodilator between 25% and 70% of the predicted normal value and FEV1 ‐ forced vital capacity ratio less than 70% 6. Two COPD exacerbations in the previous year