Osteoarthritis, KneeNCT03032068
Home Monitoring After Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty
A study testing At-Home Monitoring in people with Osteoarthritis, Knee, run by The Cleveland Clinic at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
Home monitoring technologies have recently emerged in many different areas of healthcare. These technologies are being used to provide rehabilitation to patients, and to prevent, identify, and manage complications. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Osteoarthritis, Knee
- What is being tested?
- At-Home Monitoring
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 10 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Jul 2016to 2 May 2017
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view
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 18 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Unilateral primary TKA
- Surgery is performed at Cleveland Clinic Main Campus or at Lutheran Hospital
- Patient must reside within 75 miles (driving distance) from Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
- Patient expected to utilize Cleveland Clinic Home Care Services after surgery
Who cannot join
- Revision or simultaneous bilateral TKA
- English is not the patient's preferred language for healthcare discussions
- Currently participating in any other research study
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: Feasibility of Home Monitoring After Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty
Home monitoring technologies have recently emerged in many different areas of healthcare. These technologies are being used to provide rehabilitation to patients, and to prevent, identify, and manage complications. The investigators are proposing a method to monitor and communicate with patients during the first 12 weeks after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using an electronic home-based patient monitoring system with unique connectivity capabilities and prescriptive controls. The investigators will prospectively, electronically capture range of motion and gait parameters at specified intervals using Bluetooth sensors worn by the patient. The unique in-home patient monitoring platform will be utilized by 10 TKA patients once they return home following surgery. The investigators hypothesize that the use of an internet based home patient monitoring technology platform will reliably provide information related to the patients' pain and function and enhance patient feedback and communication after TKA. The hypothesis will be tested with the following aim: 1) To test the reliability of all technology utilized within the patient's home including but not limited to the sensors, the communication controller, the patient interface (Android tablet) and the internet by prospectively comparing between data collected through the home monitoring technology and traditional clinical measurements taken during physical therapy and surgical follow-up visits.
Read the detailed description
Over one million primary total hip and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgeries are being performed annually in the U.S. and this number is expected to increase over the next seven years, along with a simultaneously projected shortage of trained orthopaedic surgeons to care for these patients. This proposal addresses the optimization of the surgeons' clinical time through utilization of innovative home based technologies to monitor and communicate with patients during the first 12 weeks after total knee arthroplasty. This will be accomplished by establishing home monitoring connectivity with novel technology and measure validated patient-reported outcomes, knee ROM and gait parameters in a postoperative TKA patient's native living environment. It will allow the investigators to prospectively, electronically capture clinically relevant TKA outcomes at the patient's home and provide insight into postoperative rehabilitation progress, predictors of suboptimal clinical outcomes, and guide future randomized controlled trial development to improve outcomes.
- Conditions
- Osteoarthritis, Knee
- Being tested
- At-Home Monitoring
- Medical subject headings
- Osteoarthritis, Knee
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
At-Home MonitoringOther
Patient reported outcomes, functional measures such as the maximum attainable range of motion (AROM) and the number of steps taken will be tracked using sensors worn by the patient. The AROM sensor values will be verified with range of motion measurements taken using a goniometer during therapy and MD visits.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| At-Home Monitoring | Experimental | Patients will follow-up in clinic postoperatively at 4, 8, and 12 weeks and their recovery will also be monitored using sensors and communication devices while they are at home after surgery. Receives: Other: At-Home Monitoring |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Overall Reliability of Monitoring Technology, Measured as Proportion of Actual Data Received From the Patient's Home Compared to the Amount of Data Expected (Based on Activities That Were Reported as Completed by Patients) Over the 12 Week Study Period.
The investigators will determine the reliability of the at-home monitoring technology for recording and transmitting data from the patient's home to the healthcare provider. This will be measured for each patient individually and then combined to form an aggregate measurement.
Reliability of the technology to collect data was calculated for each patient individually by counting the number of times data (range of motion, TUG test results, VAS Pain score, etc) was received and dividing that number by the number of times data was expected (activities reported as complete by patients). This was then converted into a percentage. Additionally, this number was aggregated by combining the numerators (activities received) for all patients and denominators (activities complete) for all patients and determining the overall reliability of the technology.
Measured: daily, from the date of discharge until the 12 week postoperative follow-up appointment has occurred
Secondary outcomes (7)
Rehab Compliance
Percentage of required at-home therapy exercises completed each session, as well as the total percentage completed during all home therapy sessions
Measured: Percentage of exercises completed 2-3 times daily, from the date of discharge up to approximately 4 weeks postoperatively when outpatient physical therapy begins
Change From Preoperative to Postoperative Knee Range of Motion
Change from Preoperative to Postoperative Knee Range of Motion, Knee range of motion is recorded daily using sensors above and below the knee. Please note: only data from sensors is being reported
Measured: Once preoperatively then postoperatively 2-3 times daily from the date of discharge until the 12 week postoperative follow-up appointment has occurred
Change From Preoperative to Postoperative Timed Up and Go Test
Change from Preoperative to Postoperative Timed Up and Go Test. The time that a patient takes to rise from a chair, walk three meters, turn around, walk back to the chair, and sit down. This time was recorded electronically by the patient at home using the tablet.
Measured: Once preoperatively then postoperatively 2-3 times daily from the date of discharge until the 12 week postoperative follow-up appointment has occurred
Visual Analog Scale for Pain (Knee-related Pain at Its Worst Over a 24 Hour Period)
Knee-related pain was measured using a visual analog scale with numeric values added to the line. Zero (0) is the minimum value and 10 is the maximum value. A score of 0 indicates no pain and a score of 10 indicates the worst pain imaginable.
Measured: Once preoperatively then postoperatively 2-3 times daily from the date of discharge until the 12 week postoperative follow-up appointment has occurred
Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) - KOOS Pain
We will assess KOOS Pain using 9 questions, each response given a point value from 0 to 4. The sum of these points will total between 0 and 36 points. This score will be normalized to a 100 point scale where 100 means no pain and 0 is extreme pain.
Measured: Once preoperatively then postoperatively once weekly from the date of discharge until the 12 week follow-up appointment has occurred
Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) - KOOS PS (Physical Function Short Form)
We will assess KOOS Function using 7 questions, each response given a point value from 0 to 4. The sum of these points will total between 0 and 28 points. This total will be normalized to a 100 point scale where 100 means no functional difficulty and 0 is extreme difficulty.
Measured: Once preoperatively then postoperatively once weekly from the date of discharge until the 12 week follow-up appointment has occurred
Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) - KOOS QOL
We will assess KOOS QOL using 4 questions, each response given a point value from 0 to 4. The sum of these points will total between 0 and 16 points, which will then be normalized to a 100 point scale. One hundred (100) means the knee does not affect quality of life and 0 indicates that the knee is a constant problem affecting quality of life.
Measured: Once preoperatively then postoperatively once weekly from the date of discharge until the 12 week follow-up appointment has occurred
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted26 Jan 2017 (estimated)
- Study startJul 2016
- Primary completion2 May 2017
- Study completion2 May 2017
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, outcome measures and adverse events reported by the sponsor.
- Other trials for Osteoarthritis, KneeStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by The Cleveland ClinicThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
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
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 10 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- The Cleveland Clinic
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Carlos Higuera-Rueda, The Cleveland Clinic
- Investigators
- Carlos Higuera, MD, Principal investigator, Staff Surgeon
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03032068
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 15-1051
- Status last verified
- Jan 2022
- First submitted
- 28 Jul 2016
- Last updated
- 18 Jan 2022
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 18 Jan 2022. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Feasibility of Home Monitoring After Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03032068
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 15-1051
- Conditions
- Osteoarthritis, Knee
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 10 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- The Cleveland ClinicUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- Jul 2016
- Primary completion
- 2 May 2017 (actual)
- Study completion
- 2 May 2017 (actual)
- First posted
- 26 Jan 2017 (estimated)
- Results
- Posted 18 Jan 2022
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Home monitoring technologies have recently emerged in many different areas of healthcare. These technologies are being used to provide rehabilitation to patients, and to prevent, identify, and manage complications. The investigators are proposing a method to monitor and communicate with patients during the first 12 weeks after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using an electronic home-based patient monitoring system with unique connectivity capabilities and prescriptive controls. The investigators will prospectively, electronically capture range of motion and gait parameters at specified intervals using Bluetooth sensors worn by the patient. The unique in-home patient monitoring platform will be utilized by 10 TKA patients once they return home following surgery. The investigators hypothesize that the use of an internet based home patient monitoring technology platform will reliably provide information related to the patients' pain and function and enhance patient feedback and communication after TKA. The hypothesis will be tested with the following aim: 1) To test the reliability of all technology utilized within the patient's home including but not limited to the sensors, the communication controller, the patient interface (Android tablet) and the internet by prospectively comparing between data collected through the home monitoring technology and traditional clinical measurements taken during physical therapy and surgical follow-up visits.
Detailed description
Over one million primary total hip and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgeries are being performed annually in the U.S. and this number is expected to increase over the next seven years, along with a simultaneously projected shortage of trained orthopaedic surgeons to care for these patients. This proposal addresses the optimization of the surgeons' clinical time through utilization of innovative home based technologies to monitor and communicate with patients during the first 12 weeks after total knee arthroplasty. This will be accomplished by establishing home monitoring connectivity with novel technology and measure validated patient-reported outcomes, knee ROM and gait parameters in a postoperative TKA patient's native living environment. It will allow the investigators to prospectively, electronically capture clinically relevant TKA outcomes at the patient's home and provide insight into postoperative rehabilitation progress, predictors of suboptimal clinical outcomes, and guide future randomized controlled trial development to improve outcomes.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| At-Home Monitoring | Experimental | Other: At-Home MonitoringPatients will follow-up in clinic postoperatively at 4, 8, and 12 weeks and their recovery will also be monitored using sensors and communication devices while they are at home after surgery. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (4 listed)
- Unilateral primary TKA
- Surgery is performed at Cleveland Clinic Main Campus or at Lutheran Hospital
- Patient must reside within 75 miles (driving distance) from Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
- Patient expected to utilize Cleveland Clinic Home Care Services after surgery
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Revision or simultaneous bilateral TKA
- English is not the patient's preferred language for healthcare discussions
- Currently participating in any other research study
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| At-Home MonitoringPatient reported outcomes, functional measures such as the maximum attainable range of motion (AROM) and the number of steps taken will be tracked using sensors worn by the patient. The AROM sensor values will be verified with range of motion measurements taken using a goniometer during therapy and MD visits. | Other | At-Home Monitoring |
Primary outcome
Overall Reliability of Monitoring Technology, Measured as Proportion of Actual Data Received From the Patient's Home Compared to the Amount of Data Expected (Based on Activities That Were Reported as Completed by Patients) Over the 12 Week Study Period.
Time frame: daily, from the date of discharge until the 12 week postoperative follow-up appointment has occurred
The investigators will determine the reliability of the at-home monitoring technology for recording and transmitting data from the patient's home to the healthcare provider. This will be measured for each patient individually and then combined to form an aggregate measurement. Reliability of the technology to collect data was calculated for each patient individually by counting the number of times data (range of motion, TUG test results, VAS Pain score, etc) was received and dividing that number by the number of times data was expected (activities reported as complete by patients). This was then converted into a percentage. Additionally, this number was aggregated by combining the numerators (activities received) for all patients and denominators (activities complete) for all patients and determining the overall reliability of the technology.
7 secondary outcomes
Rehab Compliance
Time frame: Percentage of exercises completed 2-3 times daily, from the date of discharge up to approximately 4 weeks postoperatively when outpatient physical therapy begins
Change From Preoperative to Postoperative Knee Range of Motion
Time frame: Once preoperatively then postoperatively 2-3 times daily from the date of discharge until the 12 week postoperative follow-up appointment has occurred
Change From Preoperative to Postoperative Timed Up and Go Test
Time frame: Once preoperatively then postoperatively 2-3 times daily from the date of discharge until the 12 week postoperative follow-up appointment has occurred
Visual Analog Scale for Pain (Knee-related Pain at Its Worst Over a 24 Hour Period)
Time frame: Once preoperatively then postoperatively 2-3 times daily from the date of discharge until the 12 week postoperative follow-up appointment has occurred
Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) - KOOS Pain
Time frame: Once preoperatively then postoperatively once weekly from the date of discharge until the 12 week follow-up appointment has occurred
Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) - KOOS PS (Physical Function Short Form)
Time frame: Once preoperatively then postoperatively once weekly from the date of discharge until the 12 week follow-up appointment has occurred
Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) - KOOS QOL
Time frame: Once preoperatively then postoperatively once weekly from the date of discharge until the 12 week follow-up appointment has occurred
Results and safety
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Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 18 Jan 2022.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, baseline, all outcome measures and adverse events.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Carlos Higuera, MD principal investigator
Staff Surgeon
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing At-Home Monitoring in people with Osteoarthritis, Knee, run by The Cleveland Clinic at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. 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: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 18 Jan 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. 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?
Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 18 Jan 2022). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Overall Reliability of Monitoring Technology, Measured as Proportion of Actual Data Received From the Patient's Home Compared to the Amount of Data Expected (Based on Activities That Were Reported as Completed by Patients) Over the 12 Week Study Period. (time frame: daily, from the date of discharge until the 12 week postoperative follow-up appointment has occurred). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
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 18 Jan 2022.