The Effect of Patient Discharge From the Maternal and Fetal Medicine Unit With Receiving a Discharge Letter Later Using the Apollo App on Discharge Data, Safety and Patient Satisfaction

Baruch Padeh Medical Center

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Patient Satisfaction; Health Care Utilization

Treatments: Other: Regular discharge; Other: Discharge using Apollo application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06604559

55-24-POR

Details and patient eligibility

About

Women admitted to the maternal and fetal medicine unit are often discharged after a short hospital stay. The routine work in the department is prioritized such that the discharge letter are written. In the last year the Apollo mobile application (app) was introduced. It contains general information on the medical center and the maternal and fetal unit department as well as the medical records, laboratory results and summary and discharge letters. The Apollo app is used in the maternal and fetal unit in the discharge process so the patient can receive the discharge letter in the app and does not need to wait until the discharge letter is written.

It is not known whether this process is more effective than the regular discharge process and patients' satisfaction was not assessed previously.

In the present study we will compare discharge data, satisfaction and safety of discharging using the Apollo app versus the routine process.

Enrollment: 140 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women who are admitted to the maternal and fetal medicine unit with the intention to be discharged before delivery
• 18 years old and older
• Consent to participate
• Owner of a smart phone
• Consent to download the Apollo app

Exclusion criteria

• Delivery during her admission
• Doesn't own a smart phone
• Refusal to download to Apollo app
• Refusal to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

Application discharge

Experimental group

Description:

The discharge is conditional on the approval of a senior physician or the attending physician in charge. The participant will sign on a "Form for discharge and consent to receive a discharge letter, using the "Apollo" application" in which the discharge process, recommendations and contact information of the department are described. Thereafter, the patient will be discharge home and the discharge letter will be available in the app once it is written. The participant is guided to contact the department, in case the discharge letter is not received in the application up to 24 hours after discharge.

Treatment:

Other: Discharge using Apollo application

Regular discharge

Other group

Description:

The discharge is conditional on the approval of a senior physician or the attending physician in charge. The patient will go home only after the discharge letter is written.

Treatment:

Other: Regular discharge