CirrhoCare- Using Smart-phone Technology to Enhance Care and Access to Treatment for Cirrhosis — CirrhoCare  

Decompensated Cirrhosis Clinical Trial

Official title: CirrhoCare, A Real-world, Randomised Controlled Study, to Determine the Clinical and Cost-effectiveness of CirrhoCare Digital Home Monitoring and Management in Patients With Decompensated Cirrhosis

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The CirrhoCare trial is a multi-centre, open label randomised controlled trial in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. The trial aims to investigate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of CirrhoCare digital home monitoring and management with current standard of care in these patients.

Clinical Trial Description

Cirrhosis, progressive scaring of the liver- has many causes, principally, excessive alcohol intake, fatty-liver and viral infections. Unlike many chronic diseases, cirrhosis deaths are increasing rapidly year-on-year. It is the third commonest cause of premature, UK working-age deaths, with 62,000 years of working-life lost each year and NHS care costs of £4.53bn annually. One quarter of all UK cirrhosis patients are at-risk of acute decompensation, whereby complications such as fluid-overload, confusion and infections arise, requiring hospital-emergency treatment.

Currently, decompensated cirrhosis patients require regular hospital clinical assessments to detect these new complications. Even following hospital discharge, readmission with new decompensating complications approaches 37% in 4 weeks. This disease burden, compounded by increasing alcohol and obesity-driven liver disease, means demand for specialist liver services outweighs current capacity in a resource-stretched healthcare system. Moreover, regional variation of specialist liver services also impacts on illness and deaths, leading to a postcode lottery of care access and geographical inequity.

The CirrhoCare trial, addresses this urgent clinical-need through an innovative cirrhosis management system, including home-monitoring of decompensated cirrhosis patients, measuring vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure (using low cost, sensing technology), assessing weight (smart-scale) and mental ability (smartphone app), all of which are impacted as cirrhosis progresses. By efficiently and securely collecting data on CyberLiver's management-system (platform), CirrhoCare provides a decision-facilitating tool, incorporating individual-patient data, helping liver-physicians to optimise and personalise treatment in the community.

The CirrhoCare trial investigators also plan to assess clinical and cost effectiveness of CirrhoCare management and seek regulatory approvals. This innovative aspect of cirrhosis management will be more acceptable and convenient for patients. It will also deliver community care with environmental, sustainable benefits, through reduced hospital visits, despite increasing service demands. The cost- effectiveness analysis will generate value-for-money evidence of CirrhoCare management, and the clinical evidence needed to inform future adoption into the NHS. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Decompensated Cirrhosis
• Fibrosis
• Liver Cirrhosis

• NCT number: NCT06223893
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University College, London
• Contact: Jenny Philip
• Phone: 0203 108 4175
• Email: cctu.cirrhocare@ucl.ac.uk
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 24, 2023
• Completion date: May 2025