None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Smart phone technology may offer an opportunity to collect data on patient outcomes following ICU admission and discharge so as to better future researchers. Using apps installed on a smart phone patient markers of patient function can be remotely monitored and automatically collated without the need for inconvenient time consuming questionnaires or clinic follow ups. The Patient Outcomes Measure app can collect such data as effectively as conventional validated historical questionnaire methods.
Interventions
This is a pilot study to assess the ability of smart phones to gather functional data on patients discharged from ICU following an admission of greater than 48 hours. An electronic medical record system will allow selection of prospective participants that meet the inclusion criteria and they will be contacted 1 month after hospital discharge by paper letter. They will be asked for consent and to install a smart phone app called the Patient Outcomes Measure (POM) that will monitor their movement
This is a pilot study to assess the ability of smart phones to gather functional data on patients discharged from ICU following an admission of greater than 48 hours. An electronic medical record system will allow selection of prospective participants that meet the inclusion criteria and they will be contacted 1 month after hospital discharge by paper letter. They will be asked for consent and to install a smart phone app called the Patient Outcomes Measure (POM) that will monitor their movements and track their daily step count and the distance they travel each day for a total of 6 months The only device they will need to carry with them will be their phone and it will only monitor the participant if it is carried with them. They will also be contacted at 3 and 6 months to complete conventional surveys aimed at assessing key aspects of general health to compare to their smart phone data. The surveys should take from 30-45 minutes to complete.
Sponsors
Royal Adelaide Hospital
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
• Emergency admission to ICU • ICU length of stay (LoS) equal to or greater than 48 hrs • Age equal to or greater than 18 years
Exclusion criteria
• Readmitted to ICU • Non-English speaker
Outcome results
None listed