Clinical Trial: Organization of Ambulatory Telemonitoring of People With Hearing Loss and Having a Cochlear Implant COCHLESURV

Study Status: Not yet recruiting
Recruit Status: Not yet recruiting
Study Type: Observational

Official Title: Organization of Ambulatory Telemonitoring of People With Hearing Loss and Having a Cochlear Implant COCHLESURV

Brief Summary:

The number of patients with cochlear implants increases every year, constituting an active queue increasingly important (60 new cases per year in Toulouse, active list in 2013: 380 adult patients). The number of approved cochlear implant centers is limited by guardianships, and corresponds to the Hospitals University. It is not possible to create networks of correspondents. Teams of implantation centers must meet the needs of new patients and ensure continuity of care for patients already implanted: speech therapy monitoring, adjustment and rehabilitation.

In case of malfunction of the implant, patients use in first-line reference center. The increasing number of patients leads to a lack of specialized teams that can not meet the demands of patients in a timely manner, while continuing to provide support for new patients. It is therefore necessary to find solutions to improve the service provided to patients who received a cochlear implant system to respond quickly and effectively to the request of troubled patients, while optimizing the workload of the teams . The introduction of a telemedicine platform is expected to achieve these goals, distinguishing minor malfunctions, not requiring a consultation in a center, and the most complex situations requiring consultation in a center.


Detailed Summary:

The strategy of the study is to establish contact with the patient at home in case of problems through the establishment of a daily continuously in service by telephone contact and video calling.

There will be no change in the usual care of the patient. The monitoring center by health professionals (speech therapists, technicians and doctors ORL) in the cochlear implant center will operate a daily permanence of 5 half days on business days, to respond to a patient call.

Are excluded from this research, emergency management such as meningitis, which passes through the usual emergency lane.


Sponsor: University Hospital, Toulouse

Current Primary Outcome: the number of movements avoided the center, [ Time Frame: 12 months after the inclusion ]

number of contacts have avoided moving the patient to the center


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

  • The delay for the identification of malfunction [ Time Frame: Up to 1 year ]
  • The time spent by the health professional during a telemedicine session [ Time Frame: Up to 1 year ]


Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: University Hospital, Toulouse

Dates:
Date Received: July 21, 2016
Date Started: September 2016
Date Completion: September 2018
Last Updated: August 31, 2016
Last Verified: August 2016