Effects of COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Intensive Care Unit Survivor Telemedicine Clinic on Patient Readmission, Pain Perception, and Self-Assessed Health Scores: Randomized, Prospective, Single-Center, Exploratory Study.
Bathmapriya BalakrishnanLucas HamrickAriful AlamJesse M ThompsonPublished in: JMIR formative research (2023)
This exploratory study found no statistically significant results in reducing health care utilization postdischarge and health-related quality of life. However, PCPs and patients perceived telemedicine as a feasible and favorable model for postdischarge care among COVID-19 ICU survivors to facilitate expedited subspecialty assessment, decrease unanticipated postdischarge health care utilization, and reduce PICS. Further investigation is warranted to determine the feasibility of incorporating telemedicine-based post-hospitalization follow-up for all medical ICU survivors that may show improvement in health care utilization in a larger population.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- intensive care unit
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- mechanical ventilation
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- mental health
- palliative care
- chronic pain
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- physical activity
- depressive symptoms
- randomized controlled trial
- clinical trial
- open label
- neuropathic pain
- health information
- affordable care act
- patient reported outcomes
- spinal cord
- risk assessment
- double blind
- placebo controlled
- climate change
- phase ii
- phase iii
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- patient reported
- health promotion