Trial reportBMJ open2015
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of telephone-based support versus usual care for treatment of pressure ulcers in people with spinal cord injury in low-income and middle-income countries: study protocol for a 12-week randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in BMJ open, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of surgical interventions in patients with severe pressure ulcers: the SIPS mixed-methods exploratory study.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025Pooled it
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of telephone-based support for the management of pressure ulcers in people with spinal cord injury in India and Bangladesh.Spinal cord · 2017Trial
- Telephone-based management of pressure ulcers in people with spinal cord injury in low- and middle-income countries: a randomised controlled trial.Spinal cord · 2017Trial
- Substantiating Clinical Effectiveness and Potential Barriers to the Widespread Implementation of Spinal Cord Injury Telerehabilitation: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis of Randomized Trials in the Recent Past Decade.Telemedicine reports · 2021Article
- More economic evaluations are needed in calculating the burden of wound care.International wound journal · 2020Article
- Hospital based care at home; study protocol for a mixed epidemiological and randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2019Article
- Current Status and Future Directions of mHealth Interventions for Health System Strengthening in India: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2018Review
- Thymoquinone reduces spinal cord injury by inhibiting inflammatory response, oxidative stress and apoptosis via PPAR-γ and PI3K/Akt pathways.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2018Article
- Telemedicine using an iPad in the spinal cord injury population: a utility and patient satisfaction study.Spinal cord series and cases · 2018Article
- Physiotherapy in Indian communities: a brief review.Health promotion perspectives · 2017Review
- Rising to the Challenge: Spinal Ailments in India.Indian journal of orthopaedicsArticle
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10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionPressure ulcers are a common and severe complication of spinal cord injury, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries where people often need to manage pressure ulcers alone and at home. Telephone-based support may help people in these situations to manage their pressure ulcers. The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of telephone-based support to help people with spinal cord injury manage pressure ulcers at home in India and Bangladesh. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: A multicentre (3 sites), prospective, assessor-blinded, parallel, randomised controlled trial will be undertaken. 120 participants with pressure ulcers on the sacrum, ischial tuberosity or greater trochanter of the femur secondary to spinal cord injury will be randomly assigned to a Control or Intervention group. Participants in the Control group will receive usual community care. That is, they will manage their pressure ulcers on their own at home but will be free to access whatever healthcare support they can. Participants in the Intervention group will also manage their pressure ulcers at home and will also be free to access whatever healthcare support they can, but in addition they will receive weekly telephone-based support and advice for 12 weeks (15-25 min/week). The primary outcome is the size of the pressure ulcer at 12 weeks. 13 secondary outcomes will be measured reflecting other aspects of pressure ulcer resolution, depression, quality of life, participation and satisfaction with healthcare provision. An economic evaluation will be run in parallel and will include a cost-effectiveness and a cost-utility analysis. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Ethics Committee at each site. The results of this study will be disseminated through publications and presented at national and international conferences. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ACTRN12613001225707.
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