Telemedicine in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease (TELE-IBD)
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Purpose
Improved methods are needed to monitor patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Telemedicine has shown promise in patients with other chronic diseases; pilot testing in our patients with inflammatory bowel disease demonstrated that the technology was feasible and improved clinical outcomes.
The telemedicine system for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (Tele-IBD) should improve outcomes for patients, improve access to care in areas with limited resources, and decrease health care costs.
| Condition | Intervention | Phase |
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease Crohn's Disease Ulcerative Colitis Indeterminate Colitis |
Behavioral: Home Monitoring |
Phase 3 |
| Study Type: | Interventional |
| Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Health Services Research |
| Official Title: | Telemedicine in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease (TELE-IBD) |
- Disease Activity [ Time Frame: 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Clinical disease activity
- Quality of Life [ Time Frame: 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Disease-specific quality of life (inflammatory bowel disease questionnaire)
- Health Care Utilization [ Time Frame: One year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
| Estimated Enrollment: | 375 |
| Study Start Date: | January 2013 |
| Estimated Study Completion Date: | July 2018 |
| Estimated Primary Completion Date: | July 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
| Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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No Intervention: Standard of Care
Participants undergo usual follow up (routine and as needed office visits and telephone calls) and receive educational fact sheets from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.
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Experimental: Weekly Home Monitoring
Participants log onto the TELE-IBD website weekly to answer questions about disease symptoms, adherence, side effects, to check body weight and to receive educational content. Participants receive self action plans after each self-testing session. Alerts are generated to the nurse coordinator if certain clinical criteria are met.
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Behavioral: Home Monitoring
Participants log onto the TELE-IBD website weekly to answer questions about disease symptoms, adherence, side effects, to check body weight and to receive educational content. Participants receive self action plans after each self-testing session. Alerts are generated to the nurse coordinator if certain clinical criteria are met.
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Experimental: Home Monitoring Every Other Week
Participants log onto the TELE-IBD website every other week to answer questions about disease symptoms, adherence, side effects, to check body weight and to receive educational content. Participants receive self action plans after each self-testing session. Alerts are generated to the nurse coordinator if certain clinical criteria are met.
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Behavioral: Home Monitoring
Participants log onto the TELE-IBD website every other week to answer questions about disease symptoms, adherence, side effects, to check body weight and to receive educational content. Participants receive self action plans after each self-testing session. Alerts are generated to the nurse coordinator if certain clinical criteria are met.
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Detailed Description:
Introduction: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition that results in debilitating symptoms. Although effective treatments exist, inadequate monitoring of symptoms and side effects, nonadherence, and poor patient knowledge are barriers to success. Telemedicine has been used in other chronic diseases to improve outcomes; pilot testing of telemedicine demonstrated that it is feasible and accepted in IBD. Our preliminary results from a randomized trial in participants with ulcerative colitis showed significant improvements in quality of life from baseline to one year in the telemanagement group.
Study Design: Telemedicine for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Tele-IBD) is a 12-month, multicenter, randomized, controlled trial to assess the impact of Tele-IBD compared to standard care in participants with IBD. The aims of the study are to: (1) assess disease activity in participants with IBD using Tele-IBD compared to participants using standard care, (2) assess quality of life in participants with IBD using Tele-IBD compared to participants using standard care, and (3) estimate differences of person-level rates of utilization of health care resources in participants with IBD using Tele-IBD compared to participants using standard care.
Methods: Tele-IBD consists of a web-portal and a weight scale. Participants answer questions about IBD symptoms, side effects and adherence using their home PC or a laptop with wireless Internet access provided to them for the study. A series of educational topics is administered via video messaging every 2-3 weeks. Tele-IBD participants complete self-testing weekly or every other week; the results are immediately available on the web-portal for review. Based on the responses, alerts and action plans are created for each participant. A nurse care coordinator consults the participant's medical provider for management changes if necessary. IBD patients evaluated at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Pittsburgh, and Vanderbilt University will be invited to participate. Interested patients will be randomized in a 1:1:1 fashion to receive Tele-IBD weekly, Tele-IBD every other week, or standard care. Disease activity, quality of life, medical adherence, and utilization of health care resources will be assessed every 6 months for one year. In addition, provider interactions with patients in all three arms will be monitored and recorded.
Expected Findings: Tele-IBD will decrease disease activity and improve quality of life through improved adherence and monitoring of symptoms, earlier and more effective implementation of therapy, more frequent patient-provider interactions, and improved patient self-management. Better control of IBD will result in decreased utilization of health care resources.
Significance: If Tele-IBD improves outcomes, it is likely to be used to improve IBD care, to contain health care costs, to increase access to care, and to improve adherence with physician performance measures.
Eligibility| Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
| Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Confirmed diagnosis of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis or indeterminate colitis
Exclusion Criteria:
- Cannot comprehend simple instructions in English
- Inability to comply with the study protocol (i.e., active drug or alcohol abuse or history of nonadherence to medical visits and/or medications)
- Presence of an ileostomy, colostomy, ileoanal j pouch anastomosis or ileorectal anastomosis
- Imminent surgery
- History of short bowel syndrome
- No flares of disease in last two years
- Uncontrolled medical or psychiatric disease Degenerative neurologic condition Unstable angina Class III/IV congestive heart failure Severe asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Symptomatic peripheral vascular disease Chronic renal insufficiency (creatinine > 2.0) Malignancy within the last 5 years (excluding squamous or basal cell cancers of the skin) Poorly controlled depression, mania, and schizophrenia Active infection Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- Pregnancy
- Age less than 18 years.
Contacts and Locations| Contact: Raymond Cross, MD, MS, AGAF | 410-706-3387 | rcross@medicine.umaryland.edu |
| Contact: Ankur Rustgi, MBBS, MPH | 410-706-3397 | arustgi@medicine.umaryland.edu |
| United States, Maryland | |
| University of Maryland | Not yet recruiting |
| Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201 | |
| Contact: Nadia Cheevers, RN, BSN 410-706-3398 ncheever@medicine.umaryland.edu | |
| Principal Investigator: Raymond Cross, MD, MS | |
| Principal Investigator: | Raymond K Cross, MD, MS, AGAF | University of Maryland |
More Information
No publications provided
| Responsible Party: | Raymond Cross, Principal Investigator, University of Maryland |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01692743 History of Changes |
| Other Study ID Numbers: | HP-00049230 |
| Study First Received: | September 13, 2012 |
| Last Updated: | September 20, 2012 |
| Health Authority: | United States: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
Keywords provided by University of Maryland:
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Telemedicine Inflammatory bowel disease Crohn's disease |
Ulcerative colitis Quality of life Health care utilization |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
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Colitis Colitis, Ulcerative Crohn Disease Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Intestinal Diseases Ulcer |
Gastroenteritis Gastrointestinal Diseases Digestive System Diseases Colonic Diseases Pathologic Processes |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 23, 2013