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Diabetes Type 2C3-CloudNCT03834207

A Study of the Usefulness & Usability of a Healthcare IT System for Managing Multi-morbidity and Poly-pharmacy

A study testing Use of the C3-Cloud IT system in people with Diabetes Type 2 and Renal Failure, run by Dr Christopher Marguerie at 3 sites in 3 countries.

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Trial summary

To assess the acceptability of a personalised ICT tool that facilitates coordinated care planning, treatment optimisation and patient self-management for patients with multiple long term conditions and their team of health professionals. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 55 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Diabetes Type 2, Renal Failure, Heart Failure
What is being tested?
Use of the C3-Cloud IT system
Type of treatment
Medical device
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
672 participants
Where
3 sitesin 3 countries
Study dates
1 Oct 2018to 30 Apr 2020
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 55 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

PATIENTS - Inclusion Criteria:-

  • They are aged 55 or older
  • They are multimorbid patients that suffer from two or more of the following four conditions in various disease combinations (two conditions set as the minimum threshold):-
  • Diabetes type 2
  • Renal Failure with eGFR/GFR 30 - 59 (measured or estimated glomerular filtration rate)
  • Heart Failure in compliance with NYHA I-II (New York Heart Association classification of heart failure)
  • Mild or moderate depression
  • They still live and generally plan on living in their home (or in the community) for the 12-month trial duration.
  • They or their informal caregiver pass the ICT Handling Self-Check (see Deliverable D10.4, Annex 8.3) (i.e. they have access to and some familiarity with the use of ICT).
  • They, or their informal caregiver, have stable access to the internet and at least one of the following devices readily available to use the C3-Cloud components: Computer; Notebook; Smartphone; Tablet. This includes the use of Internet Browsers to open the C3-Cloud patient dashboards online.
  • They are able to provide informed consent.

PATIENTS - Exclusion Criteria:-

•The exclusion criteria include almost completely the reverse of the inclusion criteria. Patients are not eligible for recruitment if:-

  • They are aged 54 or below
  • They suffer from any of the following conditions:
  • Severe Renal Failure with eGFR/GFR <30
  • Severe Heart Failure in compliance with NYHA III-IV
  • Severe depression
  • They have other debilitating conditions that impair their decision making capability or their life expectancy (e.g. end-of-life patients or cancer patients)
  • They or their informal caregivers do not pass the ICT Handling Self-Check (i.e. they do not have access to suitable IT devices and do not have some familiarity with the use of ICT).
  • They have disabilities or other health conditions that would prevent their active involvement in the study project or which prevent them from carrying out essential functions of the trial.
  • They live in a care institution, for instance in a residential home or nursing home.
  • Their health care expenses are covered by a private insurance: in the C3-Cloud pilot sites, private insurances have no data exchange with EHRs.
  • They do not speak the regional language: English for SWFT; Spanish for the Basque country; Swedish for RJH
  • They are unable to provide informed consent for study participation.

Patients with further chronic diseases and other co-morbidities or symptoms, for example, frailty, sleeping problems, malnourishment or anxiety, will not be excluded from recruitment. Informal caregivers who pass the ICT Handling Self-Check can substitute for the patient if the patient does not pass the ICT Handling Self-Check - the patient-informal caregiver pair can then still be recruited.

PATIENT'S HELPERS/CARERS - Exclusion Criteria:-

There are no specific inclusion criteria for informal caregivers. However, the following exclusion criteria apply:-

  • They are aged 17 or below
  • They do not have some familiarity with the use of ICT or do not have the capability to help the patient out with ICT usage if necessary.
  • They do not have stable access to the internet and at least one of the following devices readily available to use the C3-Cloud components: Computer; Notebook; Smartphone; Tablet. This includes the use of Internet Browsers to open the C3-Cloud patient dashboards online.
  • They are not available most of the time in person or via telephone, email, SMS or other means as to respond to calls for help.
  • They have debilitating conditions that impair their decision-making capability.
  • They do not speak the local language: English for SWFT; Spanish for the Basque country; Swedish for RJH

HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS - Inclusion Criteria:-

  • normally be involved in the selected patients care
  • open to new ways of working, specifically as part of a MDT (including GPs; consultant nurses or specialist nurses; district nurses; social workers; consultants; physiotherapists or pharmacists)
  • open to the use of new technology: MDT members do not have to be technologically knowledgeable but they should be willing to learn how to use technology to support their work.

HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS - Exclusion Criteria:-

  • None specific. Reverse of the above

Trial locations and contacts

3 sites in 3 countries.

3 sites in 3 countries

Spain1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Osakidetza

    Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, 01006

    Dolores Verdoy, PhD, 944007797, dverdoy@kronikgune.org

    Ane Fullaondo, PhD, +34 944007792, afullaondo@kronikgune.org

    Not yet recruiting

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Sweden1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Region Jamtland Harjedalen

    Östersund, S-831 27

    Mikael Lilja, Md, PhD, +4663(0)153005, mikael.lilja@regionjh.se

    Anna Eriksson, RN, +46(0)702426192, anna.eriksson@regionjh.se

    Recruiting

Other trials in Sweden

United Kingdom1 site, 1 recruiting
  • South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust

    Warwick, Warwickshire, CV34 5BW

    Christopher Marguerie, Medicine, 01926 495321 ext. 4414, Christopher.Marguerie@swft.nhs.uk

    Marie Beach, History, 01926 600853 ext. 3085, marie.beach@swft.nhs.uk

    Not yet recruiting

Other trials in United Kingdom

About this study

Official title: A Federated Collaborative Care Cure Cloud Architecture for Addressing the Needs of Multi-morbidity and Managing Poly-pharmacy

To assess the acceptability of a personalised ICT tool that facilitates coordinated care planning, treatment optimisation and patient self-management for patients with multiple long term conditions and their team of health professionals.

Read the detailed description

C3-CLOUD is a 4 year research project (information technology trial) funded by the EC to develop, pilot \& evaluate a new clinical IT system to improve the management of elderly patients with multi-morbidity \& poly-pharmacy. It will optimise patient education \& self-management and foster closer collaborative working and shared decision making between healthcare professionals \& patients using electronic multi-disciplinary care plans.

The main research question is - "Is the use of a personalised ICT tool that facilitates coordinated care planning, treatment optimisation and patient self-management acceptable to patients with multiple long term conditions and their team of health professionals?".

The 1st phase has focused on the development \& testing of the system. The 2nd phase will involve a 12 month pilot (Feb 17-Jan 18) with max 602 patients (+/- the support of their informal care givers), and a minimum of 62 healthcare professionals in 3 European pilot sites in the UK, Sweden \& Spain. An evaluation will be conducted using healthcare/treatment data \& the completion of questionnaires by the study participants.

The C3-Cloud project structure is as follows:- Funded by the EC; Co-ordinated by Warwick University; 12 European partners involved, supplying technical, clinical \& research expertise. These partners are based in the UK, Spain, Sweden, France, Turkey, Finland \& Germany; and 3 European pilot sites involved in the study - Basque Country in Spain, Region Jamtland in Sweden and South Warwickshire in the UK.

The C3-CLOUD system consists of the following 2 integrated components. (i) C3DP - this component will be used by healthcare professionals in all 3 pilot sites to manage the care of the study patients. This system records e.g. patient identifiers, contact information, diagnoses, medication, treatments, encounters, risk factors, goals \& activities for the patients etc. It also provides professionals with a clinical decision support module. (ii) a Patient Empowerment Platform (PEP) - used by patients (\& carers where applicable) so that they can view \& update their care plan. Patients can record information about themselves, their condition and their care, can view training materials \& upload readings such as blood pressure etc. PEP also automatically takes information from the C3DP system above.

The study is aiming to recruit a minimum of 602 patients to the C3-CLOUD pilot study across all 3 pilot sites. Informed consent to participate in the study will be obtained. The patients must be aged 55+ and have at least 2 or more of the following chronic diseases - diabetes type 2, mild to moderate heart failure, moderate kidney failure and mild to moderate depression. They must also have a sufficiently high level of IT understanding and access to a suitable device/the internet, or must nominate a carer, family member or friend who does.

The patients who are recruited will receive care and treatment using the C3-CLOUD system and will have identifiable data collected about them by healthcare professionals in C3DP, and will use, and provide information about themselves, in the PEP system.

A separate cohort of max 602 patients will be identified retrospectively from local health records at the end of the study to create a 'control' group. These patients will match the same inclusion criteria. However, this control group will have no active role in the study and only their anonymised data will be utilised so that resource utilisation, medication use etc, can be compared for the two groups over the same period.

In the UK, the system will be used by a cross-section of healthcare professionals (minimum 62) across the 3 pilot sites. These will be the healthcare professionals who are most likely to be involved ordinarily in treating the patients during the study.

In addition to the clinical data captured above, the intervention group patients, their carers and the healthcare professionals involved in the project will participate in a series of system/project evaluations before, during and after the study. This will be done through anonymised questionnaires.

Healthcare utilisation \& outcome data will be collected about intervention AND control group patients from local health records systems in an anonymised format. Evaluation data for the intervention group patients will also be extracted from the C3-Cloud system itself in an anonymised format.

Being tested
Use of the C3-Cloud IT system
Keywords
C3-Cloud, Multimorbidity, Diabetes Type 2, Heart Failure, Cardiac Failure, Depression, Renal Failure, Kidney Failure, Ageing, Computer System, Information Technology, Patient Empowerment, Guideline Reconciliation, Polypharmacy, Integrated Care, Clinical Decision Support
Medical subject headings
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Renal Insufficiency, Heart Failure, Depression, Chronic Disease, Patient Participation

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Use of the C3-Cloud IT systemDevice

    Patients who are recruited to the intervention arm will use the C3-Cloud system during the pilot study.

Study groups in NCT03834207
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Intervention GroupExperimentalUse of the C3-Cloud IT system
Receives: Device: Use of the C3-Cloud IT system

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Acceptability & usefulness of the C3-Cloud system

    This is qualitative research so the primary outcome measure will be the acceptability and usefulness of the technology by patients, informal care givers and health \& care professionals. The UTAUT questionnaire (Unified Theory of Acceptance and User of Technology) will be performed to determine C3-Cloud user responses along the following UTAUT categories: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, cultural and language factors, technology anxiety, adoption timeline and associated facilitating conditions on the intended adoption behaviour. The questionnaire will be performed online and data will be aggregated completely anonymously using the online questionnaire platform "LimeSurvey", hosted on servers of empirica. The ordinal responses (e.g. "I strongly disagree" or "I strongly agree") are clustered along the UTAUT categories analsed anonymously.

    Measured: 12 months

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted7 Feb 2019
  2. Study start1 Oct 2018
  3. Primary completion31 Jan 2020 (estimated)
  4. Study completion30 Apr 2020 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Model description
A single intervention group that will use and evaluate the C3-Cloud system during the 12 month study. Please note that an anonymous group of patients meeting the same criteria will be identified retrospectively at the end of the study so that healthcare resource utilisation during the same period can be compared.
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
672 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03834207
Sponsor's protocol ID
689181
Acronym
C3-Cloud
Status last verified
Feb 2019
First submitted
2 Jan 2019
Last updated
7 Feb 2019
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No: Only anonymised, aggregated data will be shared with researchers.

Publications

  • von Tottleben M, Grinyer K, Arfa A, Traore L, Verdoy D, Lim Choi Keung SN, Larranaga I, Jaulent MC, De Manuel Keenoy E, Lilja M, Beach M, Marguerie C, Yuksel M, Laleci Erturkmen GB, Klein GO, Lindman P, Mar J, Kalra D; C3-Cloud Research Team; Arvanitis TN. An Integrated Care Platform System (C3-Cloud) for Care Planning, Decision Support, and Empowerment of Patients With Multimorbidity: Protocol for a Technology Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2022 Jul 13;11(7):e21994. doi: 10.2196/21994.

    PubMed 35830239

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Use of the C3-Cloud IT system in people with Diabetes Type 2 and Renal Failure, run by Dr Christopher Marguerie at 3 sites in 3 countries.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 7 Feb 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 3 sites in Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Theodoros N. Arvanitis (+44 (0)24 7615 1601, T.Arvanitis@warwick.ac.uk), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Acceptability & usefulness of the C3-Cloud system (time frame: 12 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03834207, which also lists 1 linked publication.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 7 Feb 2019.

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