- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03834207
A Study of the Usefulness & Usability of a Healthcare IT System for Managing Multi-morbidity and Poly-pharmacy (C3-Cloud)
A Federated Collaborative Care Cure Cloud Architecture for Addressing the Needs of Multi-morbidity and Managing Poly-pharmacy
Study Overview
Status
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
C3-CLOUD is a 4 year research project (information technology trial) funded by the EC to develop, pilot & evaluate a new clinical IT system to improve the management of elderly patients with multi-morbidity & poly-pharmacy. It will optimise patient education & self-management and foster closer collaborative working and shared decision making between healthcare professionals & patients using electronic multi-disciplinary care plans.
The main research question is - "Is the use of a personalised ICT tool that facilitates coordinated care planning, treatment optimisation and patient self-management acceptable to patients with multiple long term conditions and their team of health professionals?".
The 1st phase has focused on the development & testing of the system. The 2nd phase will involve a 12 month pilot (Feb 17-Jan 18) with max 602 patients (+/- the support of their informal care givers), and a minimum of 62 healthcare professionals in 3 European pilot sites in the UK, Sweden & Spain. An evaluation will be conducted using healthcare/treatment data & the completion of questionnaires by the study participants.
The C3-Cloud project structure is as follows:- Funded by the EC; Co-ordinated by Warwick University; 12 European partners involved, supplying technical, clinical & research expertise. These partners are based in the UK, Spain, Sweden, France, Turkey, Finland & Germany; and 3 European pilot sites involved in the study - Basque Country in Spain, Region Jamtland in Sweden and South Warwickshire in the UK.
The C3-CLOUD system consists of the following 2 integrated components. (i) C3DP - this component will be used by healthcare professionals in all 3 pilot sites to manage the care of the study patients. This system records e.g. patient identifiers, contact information, diagnoses, medication, treatments, encounters, risk factors, goals & activities for the patients etc. It also provides professionals with a clinical decision support module. (ii) a Patient Empowerment Platform (PEP) - used by patients (& carers where applicable) so that they can view & update their care plan. Patients can record information about themselves, their condition and their care, can view training materials & upload readings such as blood pressure etc. PEP also automatically takes information from the C3DP system above.
The study is aiming to recruit a minimum of 602 patients to the C3-CLOUD pilot study across all 3 pilot sites. Informed consent to participate in the study will be obtained. The patients must be aged 55+ and have at least 2 or more of the following chronic diseases - diabetes type 2, mild to moderate heart failure, moderate kidney failure and mild to moderate depression. They must also have a sufficiently high level of IT understanding and access to a suitable device/the internet, or must nominate a carer, family member or friend who does.
The patients who are recruited will receive care and treatment using the C3-CLOUD system and will have identifiable data collected about them by healthcare professionals in C3DP, and will use, and provide information about themselves, in the PEP system.
A separate cohort of max 602 patients will be identified retrospectively from local health records at the end of the study to create a 'control' group. These patients will match the same inclusion criteria. However, this control group will have no active role in the study and only their anonymised data will be utilised so that resource utilisation, medication use etc, can be compared for the two groups over the same period.
In the UK, the system will be used by a cross-section of healthcare professionals (minimum 62) across the 3 pilot sites. These will be the healthcare professionals who are most likely to be involved ordinarily in treating the patients during the study.
In addition to the clinical data captured above, the intervention group patients, their carers and the healthcare professionals involved in the project will participate in a series of system/project evaluations before, during and after the study. This will be done through anonymised questionnaires.
Healthcare utilisation & outcome data will be collected about intervention AND control group patients from local health records systems in an anonymised format. Evaluation data for the intervention group patients will also be extracted from the C3-Cloud system itself in an anonymised format.
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Theodoros N. Arvanitis
- Phone Number: +44 (0)24 7615 1601
- Email: T.Arvanitis@warwick.ac.uk
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Sarah Lim Choi Keung
- Phone Number: +44 (0)247 657 3776
- Email: S.N.Lim-Choi-Keung@warwick.ac.uk
Study Locations
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Araba
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Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain, 01006
- Not yet recruiting
- Osakidetza
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Contact:
- Dolores Verdoy, PhD
- Phone Number: 944007797
- Email: dverdoy@kronikgune.org
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Contact:
- Ane Fullaondo, PhD
- Phone Number: +34 944007792
- Email: afullaondo@kronikgune.org
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Sub-Investigator:
- Antonio de Blas
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Sub-Investigator:
- Nicolas Gonzalez
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Sub-Investigator:
- Javier Urraca
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Sub-Investigator:
- Rafael Rotaeche
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Principal Investigator:
- Esteban de Manuel
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Sub-Investigator:
- Ane Fullaondo
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Sub-Investigator:
- Amaia Saenz de Ormijana
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Sub-Investigator:
- Remedios Vega
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Ostersund, Sweden, S-831 27
- Recruiting
- Region Jämtland Härjedalen
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Contact:
- Mikael Lilja, Md, PhD
- Phone Number: +4663(0)153005
- Email: mikael.lilja@regionjh.se
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Contact:
- Anna Eriksson, RN
- Phone Number: +46(0)702426192
- Email: anna.eriksson@regionjh.se
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Sub-Investigator:
- Anna Eriksson, RN
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Principal Investigator:
- Mikael Lilja, Md, Phd
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Warwickshire
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Warwick, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, CV34 5BW
- Not yet recruiting
- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
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Contact:
- Christopher Marguerie, Medicine
- Phone Number: 4414 01926 495321
- Email: Christopher.Marguerie@swft.nhs.uk
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Contact:
- Marie Beach, History
- Phone Number: 3085 01926 600853
- Email: marie.beach@swft.nhs.uk
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Principal Investigator:
- Christopher Marguerie, Medicine
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Principal Investigator:
- Christina Ramos, Medicine
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
PATIENTS - Inclusion Criteria:-
- They are aged 55 or older
- They are multimorbid patients that suffer from two or more of the following four conditions in various disease combinations (two conditions set as the minimum threshold):-
- Diabetes type 2
- Renal Failure with eGFR/GFR 30 - 59 (measured or estimated glomerular filtration rate)
- Heart Failure in compliance with NYHA I-II (New York Heart Association classification of heart failure)
- Mild or moderate depression
- They still live and generally plan on living in their home (or in the community) for the 12-month trial duration.
- They or their informal caregiver pass the ICT Handling Self-Check (see Deliverable D10.4, Annex 8.3) (i.e. they have access to and some familiarity with the use of ICT).
- They, or their informal caregiver, have stable access to the internet and at least one of the following devices readily available to use the C3-Cloud components: Computer; Notebook; Smartphone; Tablet. This includes the use of Internet Browsers to open the C3-Cloud patient dashboards online.
- They are able to provide informed consent.
PATIENTS - Exclusion Criteria:-
•The exclusion criteria include almost completely the reverse of the inclusion criteria. Patients are not eligible for recruitment if:-
- They are aged 54 or below
- They suffer from any of the following conditions:
- Severe Renal Failure with eGFR/GFR <30
- Severe Heart Failure in compliance with NYHA III-IV
- Severe depression
- They have other debilitating conditions that impair their decision making capability or their life expectancy (e.g. end-of-life patients or cancer patients)
- They or their informal caregivers do not pass the ICT Handling Self-Check (i.e. they do not have access to suitable IT devices and do not have some familiarity with the use of ICT).
- They have disabilities or other health conditions that would prevent their active involvement in the study project or which prevent them from carrying out essential functions of the trial.
- They live in a care institution, for instance in a residential home or nursing home.
- Their health care expenses are covered by a private insurance: in the C3-Cloud pilot sites, private insurances have no data exchange with EHRs.
- They do not speak the regional language: English for SWFT; Spanish for the Basque country; Swedish for RJH
- They are unable to provide informed consent for study participation.
Patients with further chronic diseases and other co-morbidities or symptoms, for example, frailty, sleeping problems, malnourishment or anxiety, will not be excluded from recruitment. Informal caregivers who pass the ICT Handling Self-Check can substitute for the patient if the patient does not pass the ICT Handling Self-Check - the patient-informal caregiver pair can then still be recruited.
PATIENT'S HELPERS/CARERS - Exclusion Criteria:-
There are no specific inclusion criteria for informal caregivers. However, the following exclusion criteria apply:-
- They are aged 17 or below
- They do not have some familiarity with the use of ICT or do not have the capability to help the patient out with ICT usage if necessary.
- They do not have stable access to the internet and at least one of the following devices readily available to use the C3-Cloud components: Computer; Notebook; Smartphone; Tablet. This includes the use of Internet Browsers to open the C3-Cloud patient dashboards online.
- They are not available most of the time in person or via telephone, email, SMS or other means as to respond to calls for help.
- They have debilitating conditions that impair their decision-making capability.
- They do not speak the local language: English for SWFT; Spanish for the Basque country; Swedish for RJH
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS - Inclusion Criteria:-
- normally be involved in the selected patients care
- open to new ways of working, specifically as part of a MDT (including GPs; consultant nurses or specialist nurses; district nurses; social workers; consultants; physiotherapists or pharmacists)
- open to the use of new technology: MDT members do not have to be technologically knowledgeable but they should be willing to learn how to use technology to support their work.
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS - Exclusion Criteria:-
- None specific. Reverse of the above
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Other
- Allocation: N/A
- Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Intervention Group
Use of the C3-Cloud IT system
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Patients who are recruited to the intervention arm will use the C3-Cloud system during the pilot study.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Acceptability & usefulness of the C3-Cloud system
Time Frame: 12 months
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This is qualitative research so the primary outcome measure will be the acceptability and usefulness of the technology by patients, informal care givers and health & care professionals.
The UTAUT questionnaire (Unified Theory of Acceptance and User of Technology) will be performed to determine C3-Cloud user responses along the following UTAUT categories: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, cultural and language factors, technology anxiety, adoption timeline and associated facilitating conditions on the intended adoption behaviour.
The questionnaire will be performed online and data will be aggregated completely anonymously using the online questionnaire platform "LimeSurvey", hosted on servers of empirica.
The ordinal responses (e.g.
"I strongly disagree" or "I strongly agree") are clustered along the UTAUT categories analsed anonymously.
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12 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Study Chair: Theodoros N. Arvanitis, University of Warwick
Publications and helpful links
Helpful Links
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Behavioral Symptoms
- Pathologic Processes
- Heart Diseases
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Glucose Metabolism Disorders
- Metabolic Diseases
- Kidney Diseases
- Urologic Diseases
- Endocrine System Diseases
- Disease Attributes
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Heart Failure
- Depression
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Renal Insufficiency
- Chronic Disease
Other Study ID Numbers
- 689181
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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