TY - JOUR
T1 - Home telemanagement for patients with ulcerative colitis (UC HAT)
AU - Cross, Raymond K.
AU - Cheevers, Nadia
AU - Finkelstein, Joseph
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This study was supported by research funds from the Broad Medical Research Program (IBD-0190). The authors would like to thank Jean-Pierre Raufman, MD for his advice and comments for this project and Kathryn Lambert, BA, Allison Steele, RN, MSN, CRNP, and Paul Stozhkov, MA for help in implementation of the study protocol. The authors would also like to thank James Lewis, MD, David Binion, MD, and Miguel Regueiro, MD for their advice in creating the UC symptom diary.
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - Effective therapies exist to treat ulcerative colitis (UC); nonadherence, inadequate monitoring, and side-effects result in suboptimal outcomes. Novel methods for monitoring are needed. Our objectives were to assess acceptance of home automated telemanagement in ulcerative colitis (UC HAT). The UC HAT system consists of a laptop connected to a scale, a decision support server, and a web-based clinician portal. The UC HAT system facilitates self-care in UC patients by monitoring patient symptoms, side-effects, and adherence, and helping patients in following their individualized treatment plans. Ten adult patients with UC were trained to use UC HAT. Attitudinal surveys and qualitative interviews were performed. The results showed that all patients reported that use of the computer was not complicated. 90% reported that the symptom diary and side-effect questions were not difficult. All patients reported that the training was adequate and 70% reported that testing took little time. Seventy percent would feel safer using the system, and 90% would agree to use UC HAT in the future. Patients felt UC HAT would keep the patient and provider up to date on changes in symptoms. Self-testing appeared to make patients accountable for managing the disease. It was discussed that improved monitoring is needed for UC. Patients with UC can be easily trained to use HAT, and patient acceptance of the UC HAT system is high. Home automated telemanagement has potential to improve clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction in UC.
AB - Effective therapies exist to treat ulcerative colitis (UC); nonadherence, inadequate monitoring, and side-effects result in suboptimal outcomes. Novel methods for monitoring are needed. Our objectives were to assess acceptance of home automated telemanagement in ulcerative colitis (UC HAT). The UC HAT system consists of a laptop connected to a scale, a decision support server, and a web-based clinician portal. The UC HAT system facilitates self-care in UC patients by monitoring patient symptoms, side-effects, and adherence, and helping patients in following their individualized treatment plans. Ten adult patients with UC were trained to use UC HAT. Attitudinal surveys and qualitative interviews were performed. The results showed that all patients reported that use of the computer was not complicated. 90% reported that the symptom diary and side-effect questions were not difficult. All patients reported that the training was adequate and 70% reported that testing took little time. Seventy percent would feel safer using the system, and 90% would agree to use UC HAT in the future. Patients felt UC HAT would keep the patient and provider up to date on changes in symptoms. Self-testing appeared to make patients accountable for managing the disease. It was discussed that improved monitoring is needed for UC. Patients with UC can be easily trained to use HAT, and patient acceptance of the UC HAT system is high. Home automated telemanagement has potential to improve clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction in UC.
KW - Inflammatory bowel disease
KW - Monitoring
KW - Telemanagement
KW - Telemedicine
KW - Ulcerative colitis
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U2 - 10.1007/s10620-008-0640-0
DO - 10.1007/s10620-008-0640-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 19104937
AN - SCOPUS:70350227244
SN - 0163-2116
VL - 54
SP - 2463
EP - 2472
JO - Digestive Diseases and Sciences
JF - Digestive Diseases and Sciences
IS - 11
ER -