MHealth Technologies for Palliative Care Patients at the Interface of In-Patient to Outpatient Care: Protocol of Feasibility Study Aiming to Early Predict Deterioration of Patient's Health Status.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Palliative care patients are a particularly vulnerable population and one of the critical phases in patients' trajectories is discharge from specialized in-patient palliative care into outpatient care, where availability of a palliative care infrastructure is highly variable. A relevant number of potentially avoidable readmissions and emergency visits of palliative patients is observed due to rapid exacerbation of symptoms indicating the need for a closer patient monitoring. In the last years, different mHealth technology applications have been evaluated in many different patient groups.

Objective

The aim of our study is to test feasibility of a remote physical and social tracking system in palliative care patients.

Methods

A feasibility study with explorat

SUBMITTER: Theile G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5577455 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature