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My Team of Care: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Communication Tool for Collaborative Care

NCT02372994 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 49

Last updated 2016-08-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This project will pilot and test a new online communication tool, Loop, developed within a research framework with participatory and user-centred design. This pilot trial focuses on advanced cancer as an example of complex care. Cancer care involves many healthcare providers, spanning hospital to home. There is no organized way for them to communicate. Loop is a practical tool for ongoing collaboration in the patient's actual team of care that engages patients. The study will answer the questions: does Loop improve communication efficiency, engage patients and family physicians, and show early benefits in quality and health care costs?

Conditions

  • Neoplasms
  • Communication

Interventions

OTHER

Loop

Loop is a secure online communication system centered on the patient that assembles the patient's actual healthcare team for ongoing collaborative care. The patient and caregiver are integral members of the team. Loop is cross-organizational, cross-setting and interprofessional. It is for ongoing, interactive, contextual, team-based communication. Loop is explicitly for asynchronous communication, not instant messaging. The stream of messages is stored and can be sorted for ease of viewing. The tool was developed with user-centred design and requires no prior training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amna Husain, MD MPH · Temmy Latner Center for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-04-30
Completion
2016-04-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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