Telehealth in Motor Neurone Disease: a single-centre, randomised controlled feasibility and pilot study of the use of the TiM telehealth system to deliver highly specialised care in Motor Neurone Disease, at a distance

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)0 个研究点目标入组 77 人开始时间: 2014年9月5日最近更新: 2020年11月2日

适应症

试验速览

•1. Patients aged 18 years or over with ElEscorial clinically definite or clinically probable categories of MND who have attended the MND clinic at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
•2. Live within 120 minute drive from Sheffield

•The main circumstances where patients or carers will be excluded are those in which individuals would be unable to use the telehealth system or give informed consent.
•1. Patients attend another MND care centre in the UK.
•2. Significant impairment in decision making capacity preventing informed consent by the subject due to a major mental disorder including frontotemporal dementia.
•3. Patient unable to use the system due to physical, intellectual or language difficulties and unwilling to permit carer to operate it on their behalf
•4. The patient has no eligible informal carer willing to participate in the trial
•5. No available mobile or landline telephone or 3G mobile phone reception at the patient?s home (this is required to use the TiM system)
•6. Any other major impairment that may affect their ability to participate in the study

发起方

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)