title: Development of a remote monitoring satisfaction survey and its use in a clinical trial with lung transplant recipients.
abstract: We developed an instrument to measure the satisfaction of lung transplant recipients with home monitoring. The survey comprised 15 items, each scored on a five-point Likert-type scale (from strongly disagree to strongly agree). Three additional free-text items enabled subjects to provide comments. The survey had a scoring range of 15-75. In a test group of 43 patients, the internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) was 0.93 overall for all questions. The intra-class correlation for scores from the same 27 patients approximately 2.5 months apart was 0.77 for the total score. The survey was used to evaluate subject satisfaction in a randomized controlled trial of a computerized algorithm for triaging lung transplant recipients. Surveys were mailed to 50 study subjects and were returned by 32 (64% return rate). Ninety percent of respondents were satisfied with the home monitoring programme and would recommend it to other patients.
authors: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology/Health Informatics, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455, USA. stan@umn.edu
authors: Stanley M
authors: SM
authors: Finkelstein
authors: Kathleen
authors: K
authors: MacMahon
authors: Bruce R
authors: BR
authors: Lindgren
authors: William N
authors: WN
authors: Robiner
authors: Ruth
authors: R
authors: Lindquist
authors: Arin
authors: A
authors: VanWormer
authors: Marshall I
authors: MI
authors: Hertz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012648:Self Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000592:standards*; D014218:Triage / Q000379:methods; D055815:Young Adult