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Remote Monitoring Empowerment of Patients with IBDs during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

Once the WHO declared the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic, the world had to reprogram numerous clinical activities, particularly those related to highly disabling diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). In this study, 1083 IBD patients were assessed, affected by Crohn’s Disease (CD) and Ulcerative...

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Autores principales: Mastronardi, Mauro, Curlo, Margherita, Polignano, Maurizio, Vena, Natalino, Rossi, Daniela, Giannelli, Gianluigi
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7711761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33019563
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040377
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author Mastronardi, Mauro
Curlo, Margherita
Polignano, Maurizio
Vena, Natalino
Rossi, Daniela
Giannelli, Gianluigi
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Curlo, Margherita
Polignano, Maurizio
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description Once the WHO declared the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic, the world had to reprogram numerous clinical activities, particularly those related to highly disabling diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). In this study, 1083 IBD patients were assessed, affected by Crohn’s Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), and subdivided into two groups. The first group included patients who needed treatment in person at the outpatients clinic, while the second group could be tele-monitored because they were able to self-administer therapy. The tele-monitoring was based on telecommunication applications via smartphone, driven by a dedicated clinical control room in the IBD Clinic. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of life (using IBDQ32) of UC patients and tele-monitored CD patients (tele-monitoring group) as compared to those patients who underwent assessment in person in the outpatients clinic (control group). Despite observing a lower number of relapses in the control group than the tele-monitoring group, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in terms of the IBD32Q scores. Tele-monitoring of patients who are able to self-administer the IBD therapy can be an effective vicarious system as compared to the clinical evaluation in person, that could lead to important changes to avoid the overcrowding of the IBD outpatients clinic, especially during public health crises like the present pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-77117612020-12-04 Remote Monitoring Empowerment of Patients with IBDs during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Mastronardi, Mauro Curlo, Margherita Polignano, Maurizio Vena, Natalino Rossi, Daniela Giannelli, Gianluigi Healthcare (Basel) Brief Report Once the WHO declared the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic, the world had to reprogram numerous clinical activities, particularly those related to highly disabling diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). In this study, 1083 IBD patients were assessed, affected by Crohn’s Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), and subdivided into two groups. The first group included patients who needed treatment in person at the outpatients clinic, while the second group could be tele-monitored because they were able to self-administer therapy. The tele-monitoring was based on telecommunication applications via smartphone, driven by a dedicated clinical control room in the IBD Clinic. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of life (using IBDQ32) of UC patients and tele-monitored CD patients (tele-monitoring group) as compared to those patients who underwent assessment in person in the outpatients clinic (control group). Despite observing a lower number of relapses in the control group than the tele-monitoring group, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in terms of the IBD32Q scores. Tele-monitoring of patients who are able to self-administer the IBD therapy can be an effective vicarious system as compared to the clinical evaluation in person, that could lead to important changes to avoid the overcrowding of the IBD outpatients clinic, especially during public health crises like the present pandemic. MDPI 2020-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7711761/ /pubmed/33019563 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040377 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Polignano, Maurizio
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Rossi, Daniela
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Remote Monitoring Empowerment of Patients with IBDs during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
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title_short Remote Monitoring Empowerment of Patients with IBDs during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
title_sort remote monitoring empowerment of patients with ibds during the sars-cov-2 pandemic
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7711761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33019563
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040377
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