NCT03605875

A Web Application for Improving Communication on Hemodialysis Rounds

Voicing Individual Concerns for Engagement in Hemodialysis (VOICE-HD): a Web Application for Rounds

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 77 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alberta · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To evaluate a web application tool that hemodialysis patients can use outside of dialysis time to log and prioritize their concerns for the nephrologists. Specifically, the investigators will compare the usability of a web application tool to a structured paper form. The investigators will also use data from semi-structured interviews to better understand the experience and acceptability of the web app among patient participants randomized to the web application and among participating nephrologists. Primary outcome -Usability (effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction) Secondary outcomes -Quality of the patient-physician interaction (Communication Assessment Tool (CAT-14))

Detailed description

Usability is defined as Effectiveness (\>70%) * Number of people submitting a concern/ number of people with opportunity to submit a concern * Number of concerns entered/number of times concern was satisfactorily addressed Efficiency * Proportion of non-completed tasks (\<70%) * The amount of time to complete one concern Satisfaction * Semistructured interviews * Usability survey

Conditions

• Hemodialysis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Web-App	Cambian IT Health solutions from Surrey BC developed the infrastructure
BEHAVIORAL	Paper	Contains similar questions to the Web-App tool

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-28
• Primary completion: 2018-12-12
• Completion: 2019-12-13
• First posted: 2018-07-30
• Last updated: 2020-03-25

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: Canada