Transitional Telehealth Home Care: REACH



Status:Completed
Conditions:Peripheral Vascular Disease, Cardiology, Cardiology
Therapuetic Areas:Cardiology / Vascular Diseases
Healthy:No
Age Range:Any
Updated:10/5/2017
Start Date:July 2012
End Date:July 2017

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The investigators want to determine if additional, increased contact with infants and
families discharged to home after cardiac surgery improves infant and parent outcomes as
compared to usual care.

The investigators want to compare videoconferencing (SKYPE or FACTIME) and a monitoring
system called Buddy Check is helpful. Buddy Check is a web-based tool using speech and
internet technology to maintain contact with the health care team.

Infants are randomized to usual care or the intervention which uses automated daily phone
calls and 2 virtual home visits each week. Weights, oxygen levels, and amount of food taken
are obtained by the primary caregiver (parent) daily and sent via automated phone call, text
message or email messages based on primary caregiver's desired.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Cardiac surgery within 2.5 weeks of life,

- Diagnosis of congenital heart disease,

- Post menstrual age 37 weeks and older;

- Minimum birth weight 2500 grams,

- At least one parent speaks and reads English,

- Anticipated discharge by 21 days of life

Exclusion Criteria:

- Cardiomyopathy,

- Diagnosis of Genetic syndrome
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South 34th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
 215-590-1000
Principal Investigator: Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Since its start in 1855 as the nation's first hospital devoted...
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3333 Burnet Avenue # Mlc3008
Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
 1-513-636-4200 
Principal Investigator: Bradley Marino, MD MPP MSCE
Phone: 513-803-5192
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Patients and families from across the region and around the...
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