Technology Enabled Asthma Management System (TEAMS) Pilot Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

To evaluate feasibility, acceptability, safety, and preliminary efficacy of a novel patient-centered, technology-based intervention to improve asthma care in younger adult smartphone users. The program, called TEAMS (Technology Enabled Asthma Management System), uses a combination of smartphone symptom monitoring, guideline-based medication protocols, nursing telemedicine home visits, and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) custom programming. TEAMS is intended to augment primary asthma care as provided at the University of Rochester Medicine Clinic.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03648203

Run by

University of Rochester

People needed

44

Starts

2018-02-15

Expected to finish

2020-03-17

Last updated by the study team

2020-03-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patient Subjects:
• Target population, Age 18-40; Age criteria may be expanded to include adults older than 40 as needed to meet recruitment needs
• With a diagnosis of intermittent or persistent asthma;
• Possessing an active smartphone with data plan or WiFi access;
• Able to communicate in English.
• Able to perform study-related functions
• Able to give informed consent.
• (All patient subjects will be counseled that telemedicine visits consume large amounts of data, and that use of Wifi is recommended. Patient subjects will be required to initial acknowledgement of this in the consent form. Currently however, many people have unlimited data plans, which may allow visits away from Wifi.)
• Provider Subjects:
• Primary care provider to patient subjects enrolled in the study
• Other Staff Subjects:
• Secretarial or Nursing staff at the clinic, having interaction with patient subjects or procedures.

You may not qualify if…

• Patient Subjects:
• Diagnosis of confounding respiratory or cardiac diseases (e.g. cystic fibrosis, sarcoidosis, COPD, CHF, Hypertension);
• Pregnancy
• Provider Subjects:
• None
• Other Staff Subjects:
• None

Where it is running

• University of Rochester — Rochester, New York, United States

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