TY  - JOUR
AU  - Backman, Chantal
AU  - Harley, Anne
AU  - Peyton, Liam
AU  - Kuziemsky, Craig
AU  - Mercer, Jay
AU  - Monahan, Mary Anne
AU  - Schmidt, Sandra
AU  - Singh, Harvinder
AU  - Gravelle, Deborah
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/9/24
TI  - Development of a Path to Home Mobile App for the Geriatric Rehabilitation Program at Bruyère Continuing Care: Protocol for User-Centered Design and Feasibility Testing Studies
JO  - JMIR Res Protoc
SP  - e11031
VL  - 7
IS  - 9
KW  - patient discharge
KW  - care transition
KW  - user-centered design
KW  - geriatric rehabilitation
KW  - mHealth
KW  - transitional care
KW  - rehabilitation
KW  - health services for the aged
KW  - telemedicine
AB  - Background: As the population ages, the need for appropriate geriatric rehabilitation services will also increase. Pressures faced by hospitals to reduce length of stay and reduce costs have driven the need for more complex care being delivered in the home or community setting. As a result, a multifaceted approach that can provide geriatric rehabilitation patients with safe and effective person- and family-centered care during transitions from hospital to home is required. We hypothesize that a technology-supported person- and family-centered care transition could empower geriatric rehabilitation patients, engage them in shared decision making, and ultimately help them to safely manage their personalized needs during care transitions from hospital to home. Objective: The purpose of this study is to design and test the feasibility of a novel Path to Home mobile app to manage the personalized needs of geriatric rehabilitation patients during their transitions from hospital to home. Methods: This study will consist of (1) codesigning a patient- and provider-tailored mobile app, and (2) feasibility pilot testing of the mobile app to manage the needs of geriatric rehabilitation patients when leaving the hospital. In phase 1, we will follow a user-centered design process integrated with a modern agile software development methodology to iteratively codesign the personalized care transition Path to Home mobile app. In phase 2, we will conduct a single-arm feasibility pilot test with geriatric rehabilitation patients using the personalized care transition Path to Home mobile app to manage their needs during the transition from hospital to home. Results: The project was funded in May 2018, and enrollment and data analysis are underway. First results are expected to be submitted for publication in 2019. Conclusions: Our findings will help validate the use of this technology for geriatric rehabilitation patients discharged from the hospital to home. Future research will more rigorously evaluate the health and economic benefits to inform wide-scale adoption of the technology. Registered Report Identifier: RR1-10.2196/11031 
SN  - 1929-0748
UR  - http://www.researchprotocols.org/2018/9/e11031/
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/11031
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30249591
DO  - 10.2196/11031
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/11031
ER  -