Assessing equity in the uptake of remote foot temperature monitoring in a large integrated US healthcare system.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We assessed equity in the uptake of remote foot temperature monitoring (RTM) for amputation prevention throughout a large, integrated US healthcare system between 2019 and 2021, including comparisons across facilities and between patients enrolled and eligible patients not enrolled in RTM focusing on the Reach and Adoption dimensions of the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework.

Material and methods

To assess whether there was equitable use of RTM across facilities, we examined distributions of patient demographic, geographic, and facility characteristics across facility RTM use categories (e.g., no RTM use, and low, moderate, and high RTM use) among all eligible patients (n = 46,294). Second, to understand whether, amon

SUBMITTER: Littman AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10984545 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature