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Intra and Extra Hospitalization Monitoring of Vital Signs. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Perspectives from LIMS and Greenline-HT Study Operators
Pietrantonio, Filomena Vinci, Antonio Maurici, Massimo Ciarambino, Tiziana Galli, Barbara Signorini, Alessandro
La Fazia, Vincenzo Mirco Rosselli, Francescantonio Fortunato, Luca Iodice, Rosa
Pietrantonio, Filomena
Vinci, Antonio
Maurici, Massimo
Ciarambino, Tiziana
Galli, Barbara
La Fazia, Vincenzo Mirco
Rosselli, Francescantonio
Fortunato, Luca
Iodice, Rosa
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Abstract
Background: In recent years, due to the epidemiological transition, the burden of very complex patients in hospital wards has increased. Telemedicine usage appears to be a potential high-impact factor in helping with patient management, allowing hospital personnel to assess conditions in out-of-hospital scenarios.
Methods: To investigate the management of chronic patients during both hospitalization for disease and discharge, randomized studies (LIMS and Greenline-HT) are ongoing in the Internal Medicine Unit at ASL Roma 6 Castelli Hospital. The study endpoints are clinical outcomes (from a patient’s perspective). In this perspective paper, the main findings of these studies, from the operators’ point of view, are reported. Operator opinions were collected from structured and unstructured surveys conducted among the staff involved, and their main themes are reported in a narrative manner.
Results: Telemonitoring appears to be linked to a reduction in side-events and side-effects, which represent some of most commons risk factors for re-hospitalization and for delayed discharge during hospitalization. The main perceived advantages are increased patient safety and the quick response in case of emergency. The main disadvantages are believed to be related to low patient compliance and an infrastructural lack of optimization.
Conclusions: The evidence of wireless monitoring studies, combined with the analysis of activity data, suggests the need for a model of patient management that envisages an increase in the territory of structures capable of offering patients subacute care (the possibility of antibiotic treatments, blood transfusions, infusion support, and pain therapy) for the timely management of chronic patients in the terminal phase, for which treatment in acute wards must be guaranteed only for a limited time for the management of the acute phase of their diseases.
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2023
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Telemedicine, Delivery of Health Care, Physician and patient
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Pietrantonio, Filomena, Antonio Vinci, Massimo Maurici, Tiziana Ciarambino, Barbara Galli, Alessandro Signorini, Vincenzo Mirco La Fazia, et al. “Intra- and Extra-Hospitalization Monitoring of Vital Signs—Two Sides of the Same Coin: Perspectives from LIMS and Greenline-HT Study Operators.” Sensors 23 (12): 5408. 2023.