Remote Access to Care, Everywhere, for Parkinson Disease (RACE-PD)

University of Rochester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parkinson Disease

Treatments: Other: Virtual care visit

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02144220

RSRB-50627

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy and the value of providing care to individuals with Parkinson disease directly into their homes. The specific aims are:

1. To demonstrate the feasibility of conducting remote evaluations of patients with Parkinson disease nationally;
2. To measure the impact of remote care on each patient's ability to improve his or her quality of life (QoL) and better manage his or her Parkinson disease; and
3. To assess the long-term acceptability to patients in receiving ongoing care remotely via telemedicine.

Enrollment: 277 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 120 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age greater than 30
• Self reported diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson disease
• Ability to converse in English
• Ability and willingness to provide informed consent and complete study requirements
• Access to a non-public computer or similar devices with broadband internet.
• Located in New York, Maryland, Delaware, California, or Florida at time of virtual visit (or veterans with Parkinson disease anywhere in the U.S.)

Exclusion criteria

• Any condition (e.g.prominent psychosis) that in the investigator's or coordinator's judgment would preclude participation.
• Concurrent enrollment in another telemedicine study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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277 participants in 1 patient group

Virtual care visit

Experimental group

Description:

One-time virtual care visit for Parkinson disease.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual care visit