Patient engagement with digital health tools in rheumatology
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Patient engagement with digital health tools in rheumatology
IRAS ID
290520
Contact name
Toby Garrood
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
3 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
We plan to undertake a mixed methods study to investigate a digital algorithm to potentially inform triage of new patient referral to rheumatology services, as well as to inform follow up review schedules.
Current practice at out hospital is to ask all newly referred patients to complete a pre-appointment digital questionnaire prior to their clinic visit. Patients who need follow up are then routinely invited to continue to return interval questionnaires related to their symptoms between clinic visits.
We believe that the questionnaire responses could enable appropriate (and safe) allocation to a particular clinic (e.g. urgent early arthritis clinic or general rheumatology clinic for a new referral), or define an appropriate clinic follow up interval for a repeat visit for patients with a rheumatic disease.
Our study aims to evaluate these questionnaires using data collected from routine clinical practice, as well a series of semi-structured interviews with service users.
REC name
London - Queen Square Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/PR/1214
Date of REC Opinion
22 Sep 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion