Get-Ready App to Monitoring Obesity Patients Before and After Bariatric Surgery

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

app-based clinical monitoring: The use of a digital clinical monitoring application in patients undergoing surgical care.

Study summary

The study aims to evaluate whether the use of Get Ready improves remote patient monitoring, streamlines the different phases of the patient pathway, optimizes healthcare resources by reducing the number of outpatient visits and surgical procedures cancelled due to communication difficulties, and leads to an improvement in the quality of work of the healthcare staff involved

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Patient Adoption — From enrollment to the end of bariatric follow up at 18 month after surgery
  Proportion of enrolled patients who start using the digital platform. Results will be reported as percentage of enrolled patients who access the platform at least once.
• Protocol Adherence — From enrollment to the end of bariatric follow up at 18 month after surgery
  Protocol adherence will be assessed as the percentage of enrolled patients who complete the study protocol.
• Patient's satisfaction with the digital platform — 180 days after discharge
  Patient satisfaction will be assessed using the Q9Program satisfaction questionnaire administered through the app 180 days after discharge. The questionnaire consist of 10 items rated on a 1-to-10 scale. Item score will be summed to obtain a total satisfaction score rating from 10 to 100.
• Healthcare Professional platform use — From enrollment to 18 month after surgery
  Healthcare professional platform use will be assessed as the average number of logins per healthcare professional per week.
• Alert Management: alert volume — From enrollment to the end of bariatric follow up at 18 month after surgery
  * Number of alerts * Number of alerts per patient * Number of alerts per patient group (e.g. age, time within the care pathway, etc.) * Number of postoperative alerts
• Alert Management: Types of Alerts Generated — From enrollment to the end of bariatric follow up at 18 month after surgery
  Will be collected the Type of alerts (n./%, clinical or administrative) and type of clinical alerts (n./%, ex: fever, pain, etc)
• Patient Engagement - weekly — From enrollment to 18 months after surgery
  Patient engagement will be assessed as the average number of platform accesses per patient per week.

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