Mayo Clinic Health Connection Discovery Trial

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Surgical Recovery

In brief

The MC Health Connection Discovery trial is designed to determine if a new health information system that delviers interactive care plans (delivered by mobile) to patients can impact post-surgical recovery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01777841

Run by

Mayo Clinic

People needed

250

Starts

2012-02-01

Expected to finish

2013-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-01-29

Who can join

Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients will be English speaking adults without visual or hearing impairments that would prevent use of the Ipad program. Target population will be older than 50 years of age. We will include patients who are undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting, valve repair or replacement or both at St. Mary's Hospital-Rochester, Minnesota. We will also be including family members 18 years of age and over, that may be the primary non-patient user of the iPad.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who do not meet inclusion criteria or who are predicted to have very short or very long hospital stays would not be candidates for the program which is designed for a standard 5, 6 or 7 day hospitalization.

Where it is running

• Mayo Clinic — Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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