The investigators are testing whether patients with diabetes can communicate with our health care system through text messaging. The investigators will look at how often they respond to prompts for blood pressures, blood sugars, and step counts. The investigators will also see if they come in for lab tests when prompted by text message. Also, for patients overdue for medication refills, the investigators will ask them why they have not yet called for the refill.
Patients will be sent text messages through a software interface, the Patient Relationship Manager (PRM). A registered nurse will also use PRM to receive incoming responses. Tasks will be created for her to outreach to patients who have out of range text responses or poor response rates. This intervention if a feasibility study to see if patients can communicate with the investigator's health care system and potentially utilize PRM to better manage their diabetes.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
135
In this single armed intervention, patients will receive text message prompts
Denver Health
Denver, Colorado, United States
response rate to home monitoring prompts
resonse rate to blood pressure, blood sugar, and step count prompts
Time frame: 4 months
response rate to prompt for lab text by text message
response rate to prompt for lab text by text message
Time frame: 4 months
response to barrier questions for non-adherence
We will analyze the responses to text message prompts in patients late for picking up medications.
Time frame: 4 months
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