Mobile Health Technology for Chronic Kidney Disease Patients: Medication Management
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic, Hypertension, Medication Reconciliation
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Renal Insufficiency, Chronic focused on measuring chronic kidney disease, mobile applications, mHealth, medication reconciliation, self-management
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Incident or prevalent patients who are: ≥18 years of age
- English-speaking
- Able and willing to provide informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- CKD stages 1 to 3a (estimated glomerular filtration rate of ≥ 45 ml/min)
- likely to receive a kidney transplant within 3 months of enrollment into the trial
- living in a long-term care or rehabilitation institution, likely to have their care transferred to another facility outside participating clinic areas during the course of the study
- taking less than 2 prescription medications
- planning to travel or live consecutively out of the province of Ontario for more than one month
- participating in another intervention trial,
- cognitive impairment
Sites / Locations
- University Health Network
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
eKidneyCare
My MedRec (Commercial App)
The eKidneyCare mobile app has an active interface with the renal clinic pharmacy system to allow for updated medication profiles to be sent directly to the patient's smartphone for the renal clinic pharmacy information system.
My MedRec is a commercially available mobile app which allows a user to have a personal health record along with keeping track of their medications. The My MedRec mobile app allows users to track blood pressure and medication information through manual data entry with the app. It is a stand alone mobile app which stores specified medical information on the native smartphone device and does not connect to any other servers or databases.