Addressing the hidden burden of wound care amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A Virtual Wound Care Command Centre.

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Chronic Wounds; Skin - Other skin conditions

• Registration Number: ACTRN12621000344897
• Lead Sponsor: Sydney Local Health District - Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2021-03-25
• Last Update Posted: 29 March 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria for patients:
1. Patients 18 years of age and older who are discharged from health care with an unhealed wound(s) and:
(a) Have access to and can use a smartphone, OR
(b) Have a carer that has access to and can use a smartphone

Inclusion criteria for clinicians include:
1. Wound clinical nurse consultants, skin integrity nurse specialists, vascular surgeons and podiatrists that have a patient that requires wound care management
2. Have access to and can use a smartphone

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients with a wound that requires specialised treatment, such as burns/scalds
2. Patients with a non-healing wound such as palliative, malignant or fungating tumours
3. Patients with wounds with a blind-ended track such as pilonidal sinus or wound sinus
4. Patients with a superficial fast-healing wound such as abrasions, blisters or superficial lacerations and do not require continual wound monitoring.
5. Patients that have cognitive impairment, as determined by the treating physician
6. Patients that do not have access to or cannot use a smartphone.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Feasibility and acceptability of Tissue AnalyticsTM (TA) application by clinician measured using a 6-item 5-point Likert scale survey specifically designed for this study group.<br>[ Measured at the end of the study period.<br>];Feasibility and acceptability of TA application by patient measured using a 14 question 5-point Likert scale survey designed to capture equipment/technical issues, communication and rapport, clinical assessment and overall program evaluation. [ Measured at the end of the study period]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time to consultation defined as the time taken between first noticing wound to the time of review and triage of the wound, collected using data from TA app.[Cumulative data collected throughout the study will be assessed at the end of the study period];Impact on patient travel-related time, estimated by inputting residence and destination addresses into Google maps. [Cumulative data collected throughout the study will be assessed at the end of the study period];Change in wound size over time measured as percentage change wound surface area divided by the number of weeks, using data from TA app.[Baseline (start of enrolment) and then fortnightly until wound is healed or end of the study period, whichever occurs first.]