Telemedicine Clinical Trial
Official title:
Teleradiology Program for Frail Patients Living at Home or in Nursing-homes
Transporting radiology to the patient's home is challenging. Preliminary experiences
conducted in Turin (Italy) and Lund (Sweden) indicate that the coupling of simple,
light-weight X-ray equipments with a Computed radiography or Digital Radiography systems
could be effective for externalization of radiographic service.
The image and examination quality has been proved to be the same than those performed with a
stationary equipment and analysis on safety of radio-protection systems show a very low risk
exposure for health staff as well as for the general population.
Mobile radiography in nursing homes has shown to be technically feasible and the most
beneficial results were that patients avoided unnecessary transport back and forth to the
hospital; in both experiences the majority of patients could be treated locally.
The key points of RADHOME project are two:
1. The first one is to built a network model, with the aim to disseminate clinical use of
domiciliary radiology.
2. The second one is to demonstrate clinical efficiency and cost-effectiveness of
domiciliary radiology.
Europe currently has the highest proportion of older people in the world and is expected to
maintain this leading position for the next 50 years.
Population ageing is a great challenge for public health care systems as well as for
economic development. As nations age, the prevalence of disability, frailty, and chronic
diseases is expected to increase dramatically.
The hospital, which at the moment is the first choice for the delivery of acute medical
care, is not an ideal environment for frail, elderly patients. New functional impairment and
iatrogenic events such as nosocomial infections, pressure sores, falls and delirium, are
common during hospital stay.
With developments in medical and other technologies, people with very complex conditions can
increasingly have the possibility to remain at home or in nursing homes rather than in
hospital.
Technologies can also improve the quality of life of patients and informal caregivers,
allowing people to receive care and remain active at home and in the community, instead of
being institutionalized.
These societal changes, such as needs of health care cost reduction and an aging population,
are the main driving force for the development of telemedicine, especially for elderly
patients.
Residents in nursing homes or patients treated at home by community care services are
usually old or very old, multimorbid and often cognitively impaired. For these patients
transportation to the hospital for X-ray examinations may be an exhausting and disorienting
experience. They are collected by an ambulance or taxi and taken away from their environment
and people they know. Patients wait in hospital corridors to have a fairly simple X-ray done
and then wait for the pickup.
The first objective of RADHOME is to move equipments instead of patients in order to give a
response to the geriatric tsunami and to the demand for more flexible health services,
providing a view to advancing the economic efficiency of this service.
Teleradiology has become an essential part of the practice of radiology, with broad
implications for care delivery and the organization of work: combining teleradiology and
domiciliary X-ray examination has the potential to greatly improve the quality of care for
elderly frail patients with acute or chronic conditions.
Until now no wide randomized study on radiology at home has been published. Hence main aim
of this project is to carefully analyze feasibility, safety and cost-effectiveness of a
public, extra-hospital and domiciliary radiology service for frail elderly or immobile
patients, more vulnerable to environmental and social changes than other groups of patients,
which health conditions discourage the transportation to hospital.
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Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
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