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Filter by:To test the potential and acceptance of wireless activity tracking in palliative care patients leaving hospital care. Explorative study, collaboration project of the Clinic of Radiation-Oncology, University Hospital Zurich and the Wearable Computing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institut of Technology. Patients receive a tracking bracelet and a smart phone in order to gather objective physical activity parameters as step count, sleep duration, heart rate, social activity patterns (e.g. making calls) as well as subjective ratings of pain and distress. Quality of life (QoL) will be captured by paper questionnaire. Correlations between patients' physical activity patterns and the pain and distress level assessed from electronic scales as well as QoL-questionnaire will be performed. Acceptance will be evaluated by quantitative questionnaires and interviews. The proposed study is meant to be preparatory work for an intervention study to test the effect of wireless monitoring of palliative care patients on fostering early interventions for symptom relief and support of QoL.
This is a group randomized trial of an intervention to improve chronic illness self-management.
The purpose of this study is to determine if an automated text message intervention is beneficial for homeless patients in reducing their hospital visits, increasing their primary care appointments, and help them increase medication adherence.
This study aims to characterise the use of single-agent olodaterol and single-agent indacaterol, the only marketed long-acting beta2-agonist (LABA)s authorised for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but not for asthma, in clinical practice.
Assess the feasibility of using remote respiration rate monitoring as a component of home care, how respiration rate data may be used in combination with other data to potentially improve response to symptoms, and to generate data to inform the endpoints and effect sizes of future studies.
This is a fully automated randomized trial with two randomization branch-points. The first is inclusion of disease-specific orders in the admission orders based on a predictive model using real-time data. The second is the use of dynamic orders that are end-user tested rather than static orders designed by a committee. The primary hypothesis is that automatic inclusion of disease specific orders with admission orders will improve adherence to guidelines for patients with COPD. The secondary hypothesis is that clinical and operational outcomes will improve, thereby improving value.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and hence, estimating its prevalence is important. Since 2007, there are few data on the prevalence of COPD in the general population in Spain. The main objective of this epidemiological observational study is to estimate the prevalence of COPD in residents of Spain among the population over 40 years of age. The subjects will be distributed in two groups depending on the presence and absence of COPD. The study will have a single visit in which a brief interview will take place and subjects will need to complete the medical tests the case report form with a series of questionnaires. No drugs will be administered in this study.
This research is being done to learn more about the bacteria that live in the genito-urinary tract in subjects with urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS).
Information and communications technologies (ICT) currently constitute a key element in the innovation and improvement of providing health-care to frail populations with advanced chronic diseases, but it´s efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness has not yet been proven conclusively. The investigators are going to carry out a multi-center, randomized, parallel groups, phase III clinical trial in adult patient with heart and/or lung advanced diseases,aiming to analyze the efficacy and cost-efficacy of tele-monitorization of bio-parameters added to optimal standard of clinical care (shared clinical care plan) compared to the shared clinical care plan exclusively.
This study is designed to answer the following questions: "Is the My Life, My Healthcare Discussion Aid feasible for use in primary care? Does it positively impact patient and healthcare teams' care experience and communication, while reducing patient treatment burden?" Through implementation of the My Life, My Healthcare Discussion Aid for patients with chronic conditions, the study team hypothesizes that it will be feasible to implement in routine primary care practice and positively impact patient and healthcare teams experience of chronic care, while reducing patient treatment burden.