None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to explore the clinical impart of providing telehealth for community based palliative care for patients in rural Victoria. You may be eligible for this study if you are an adult with a diagnosis of a life-limiting illness. If you participate in this research you will be randomly allocated either to the telehealth consultation group or the "usual" care group in which we will simply ask you to complete questionnaires which will greatly assist us to assess and compare telehealth to usual care. The random choice is done using a dedicated computer program to ensure it is completely random. If you are in the telehealth group then your GP/palliative care community nurse will make an appointment with the specialist palliative care doctor based at the Monash Medical Centre in Clayton for a video conference. Your palliative care nurse with assistance from our team will provide all the equipment needed for this to take place in your home as part of one of their usual nursing visits. Before you begin, the specialists will already have your information, from your GP and nurse. It is hoped that this research will provide the basis for more extensive research. The system used for the video conference is a special dedicated system is completely confidential and nothing from the consultation is stored.
Interventions
telehealth : using a secure medical consultation dedicated teleconference system to enable in home consultation between physician and patient at their home. Approximately 45 minute specialist consultation with nurse facilitation home visit in line with a standard face to face patient specialist review to address the issues for which the referral was made by the GP. This process is assisted by a research assistant who also collects data monthly. No training required for participants.
Initial c
telehealth : using a secure medical consultation dedicated teleconference system to enable in home consultation between physician and patient at their home. Approximately 45 minute specialist consultation with nurse facilitation home visit in line with a standard face to face patient specialist review to address the issues for which the referral was made by the GP. This process is assisted by a research assistant who also collects data monthly. No training required for participants. Initial consultations occur 2 weeks post randomisation and then as required without limitation for 3 months and consultations lasting as long as required.
Sponsors
Monash Health
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
diagnosis of life-limiting illness 18 years or above Able to complete informed consent able to complete study questionnaires
Exclusion criteria
living in area with inadequate internet connection to perform telehealth
Outcome results
None listed