| Protocol ID | NCT03038841 |
| Registration Date | 2017-02-01 |
| Status | Unknown Status |
| Sponsor | University of Zurich |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Industry | not industry |
| Blinding | unblinded |
| Center Type | singel-center RCT |
| Scope | national RCT |
| First Patient In | 2017-02-01 |
| Last Patient Out | 2018-05-31 |
| Publication | n |
| Gender % | ALL |
| Mean Age | 18 Years - 105 Years |
NCT03038841
Mobile Health Technologies for Palliative Care Patients at the Interface of In-patient to Out-patient Care: A Feasibility Study Aiming to Early Predict Deterioration of Patient's Health Status
| Field |
GLM
glm-5.1 7647ms / 8329 tok |
CLAUDE
claude-sonnet-4-20250514 Thinking: claude-opus-4-20250514 4547ms / 9527 tok |
OPENAI
gpt-4o Thinking: o3 2319ms / 8185 tok |
Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rct_type | N/A | N/A | N/A | OK |
| cancer_status | Cancer | Cancer | Cancer | OK |
| non_cancer_spec | N/A | N/A | N/A | OK |
| setting_patient | mixed | mixed | mixed | OK |
| setting_place |
home care
other
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: other
|
home care
other → home care
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: other
Requery: home care — The intervention involves patients being discharged from hospital and equipped with tracking devices to monitor their activity and symptoms at home over 12 weeks.
|
home care
hospital → home care
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: hospital
Requery: home care — The intervention involves patients receiving mobile health devices upon discharge from hospital care to use at home, indicating home-based care.
|
OK |
| feasibility |
N/A
N/A → N/A
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: N/A
Requery: N/A — The study is classified as an observational study (Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL) rather than a randomized controlled trial (RCT).
|
N/A
feasibility RCT → feasibility RCT → N/A
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: feasibility RCT
Requery: feasibility RCT — The title explicitly states this is a 'feasibility study' and the primary outcome is feasibility measured as time of complete data transfer, with enrollment of only 30 patients.
Thinking: N/A — This is an observational study, not an RCT, as explicitly stated in the study type.
|
N/A
N/A → N/A → N/A
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: N/A
Requery: N/A — The study is an observational study as indicated in the description, not an RCT.
Thinking: N/A — The study is observational and not an RCT
|
OK |
| intervention_pharmacologic | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_chemo_immuno_radio | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_complementary | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_device | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| intervention_psychological | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_complex | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_acp | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_music | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_screening | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_palliative |
no
yes → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
Requery: no — The intervention is mobile health tracking technology to monitor patients, not palliative care itself, even though the study is conducted with palliative care patients.
|
no
no → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
Requery: no — This is a feasibility study testing mobile health technology (tracking bracelet and smartphone) in palliative care patients, not testing palliative care intervention itself.
|
no
no → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
Requery: no — The intervention tested is mobile health technology, not palliative care itself.
|
OK |
| intervention_education | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_digital | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| intervention_other | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_symptom |
yes
yes
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
|
yes
yes → yes
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
Requery: yes — The study measures subjective ratings of pain and distress using electronic scales, which are direct symptom assessments.
|
yes
no → yes
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
Requery: yes — The study includes subjective ratings of pain and distress, which are considered symptom measures.
|
OK |
| outcome_qol | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| outcome_dignity | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_cost | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_other | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| pharmacologic_sub | N/A | N/A | N/A | OK |