Improving after-hours pediatric care with a telemedicine and medicine-delivery tool using smart technology

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What this research studies

This project will create an electronic support tool to help clinicians quickly decide what to do for children using telemedicine and home-delivered medications. It will also develop a disease-severity prediction system to guide triage and escalation of care. The study will test these tools in three phases in a low-resource setting and compare scenarios with and without the prediction system to see how care flow changes. The goal is to generate evidence that can be used to adopt these tools in underserved or rural areas in the United States.

Why it matters

Where this research is happening

• University of Florida
  Gainesville, United States Active

Researchers

• Principal investigator: Nelson, Eric Jorge — University of Florida
• Study coordinator: Nelson, Eric Jorge

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About this research

1. This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
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