Home Care for Patients With COVID-19: Active Monitoring in Two Italian Health Units (Casale Monferrato and Torino) (Mon-Covid)

Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research

Status: Terminated

Conditions: COVID-19

Treatments: Other: home care monitoring

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04361916

Mon-Covid

Details and patient eligibility

About

Starting an early home management and monitoring of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 to ensure a rapid and adequate transfer to hospital care.

Assess the feasibility of home monitoring in a pilot study to possibly extend it to a larger scale.

Full description

The study will include adult patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 for whom home care is considered appropriate.

Trained health workers will conduct home care monitoring of pulmonary performance using oximetry, Quick Walk Test and Single Breath Count.

Monitoring will be done daily until disappearance of symptoms or hospitalization which will be requested by health workers or study coordination board on the basis of the monitoring results (blood oxygen level SpO2< 90% OR SpO2> 90% with desaturation index of at least 5% at Quick Walk Test)

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria:

adult patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 for whom home care is considered appropriate.

Exclusion criteria: physical, mental or temporary impairments that preclude the conduction of the test

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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37 participants in 1 patient group

home care with active monitoring

Experimental group

Description:

home care with active monitoring conducted by health workers with daily visit to patients.

Treatment:

Other: home care monitoring