Safe@home - Evaluating effectiveness and cost effectiveness of home telemonitoring supported by primary care for patients living with chronic disease in low socioeconomic neighbourhoods for reducing ambulance ramping, readmission and GP clinic block.

Project Member(s): Inglis, S.

Funding or Partner Organisation: National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC Partnership Projects)
National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC Partnership Projects)

Start year: 2023

Summary: Safe@home, will be co-designed, patient and family centred using a prospective, non-blinded pragmatic randomised controlled trial to evaluate home telemonitoring supported by primary care for patients living with chronic disease in low socioeconomic neighbourhoods, evaluating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of reducing emergency department (ED) presentations (ambulance ramping), readmission (hospital avoidance), out-of-hospital death and improving access to primary care (clinic block) and self-care.

FOR Codes: Digital health, Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases), Nursing, Telehealth

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.