NCT02372994

My Team of Care: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Communication Tool for Collaborative Care

My Team of Care (MyTOC) Trial: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Communication Tool (Loop) for Collaborative Care in Complex Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 49 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project will pilot and test a new online communication tool, Loop, developed within a research framework with participatory and user-centred design. This pilot trial focuses on advanced cancer as an example of complex care. Cancer care involves many healthcare providers, spanning hospital to home. There is no organized way for them to communicate. Loop is a practical tool for ongoing collaboration in the patient's actual team of care that engages patients. The study will answer the questions: does Loop improve communication efficiency, engage patients and family physicians, and show early benefits in quality and health care costs?

Conditions

• Neoplasms
• Communication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Loop	Loop is a secure online communication system centered on the patient that assembles the patient's actual healthcare team for ongoing collaborative care. The patient and caregiver are integral members of the team. Loop is cross-organizational, cross-setting and interprofessional. It is for ongoing, interactive, contextual, team-based communication. Loop is explicitly for asynchronous communication, not instant messaging. The stream of messages is stored and can be sorted for ease of viewing. The tool was developed with user-centred design and requires no prior training.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-04-01
• Completion: 2016-04-01
• First posted: 2015-02-26
• Last updated: 2016-08-16

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Canada