The purpose of remote therapeutic monitoring is to provide oversight and evaluation of patients receiving IV medications in the home setting post-acute. The goal is to improve patient outcomes and decrease re-admission rates for related diagnoses due to poor adherence. Remote therapeutic monitoring provides data used in the determination of dates, times, and duration of doses administered in the home setting to support real-time intervention by dedicated care managers to support improved adherence with prescribed dosing regiments. The objectives of the study are to: 1. Determine adherence rates for IV medications administered in the home. 2. Assess re-admission against adherence rates.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
90
IV Ensure proprietary remote therapeutic monitoring device is used to record and transmit data associated with date, time, and duration of IV medications administered in the home setting post-acute.
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
RECRUITINGReadmission due to subsequent related infection following the initial encounter.
This will be defined as a dichotomous outcome variable with Yes occurring when (a) a patients ID reoccurs in the OU Medicine EMR/EHR data pull within 30 days of their discharge with IV Ensure remote therapeutic monitoring device and (b) the patients readmissions reason matched the pre-specified list of ICD codes corresponding to secondary or downstream infections. If both of the above do not occur, the readmission variable will be set to No.
Time frame: From enrollment to 30 days after completion of prescribed IV medication.
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