Effect of a Short Message Service Intervention on Patients With Short Bowel Syndrome
Stopped early · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Short Bowel Syndrome
In brief
The investigators will be using a text messaging intervention to identify potentially dangerous and re- admission causing symptoms in patients with Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) on Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN). Each consented patient will receive weekly text messages inquiring about potentially harmful symptoms identified by a team of physicians. If the patient screens positive via text message, an alert will be sent to the medical team. All patients with SBS on TPN will receive text messages. The investigators will be monitoring response rates to text messages screening for potentially harmful symptoms and compare the text- message response rate to historical rates of successful calls by nurses. All patients with SBS on TPN will receive text messages instead of weekly phone calls from a nurse. If the patient does not respond to the text messages or the text message responses suggest that the patient may be presenting with potentially harmful symptoms, the nurse will call the patient to inquire about more information.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03419156
- Run by
- St. Louis University
- People needed
- 5
- Starts
- 2018-02-20
- Expected to finish
- 2019-03-21
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-03-29
Who can join
Age: any, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients under the age of 18
- Patients with a diagnosis of short bowel syndrome and who are treated with total parenteral nutrition
- Patients able to understand English or have a caregiver who understands English.
- Patients must have caregiver who has access to a phone (landline or cell phone)
You may not qualify if…
- Patients who do not have access to a phone (landline or cell phone), and patients who are not mentally able to consent to the study.
- Patients who are not treated with total parenteral nutrition.
- Patients who do no have a short bowel syndrome diagnosis
Where it is running
- Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center — St Louis, Missouri, United States
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