Starting an early home management and monitoring of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 to ensure a rapid and adequate transfer to hospital care. Assess the feasibility of home monitoring in a pilot study to possibly extend it to a larger scale.
The study will include adult patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 for whom home care
is considered appropriate.
Trained health workers will conduct home care monitoring of pulmonary performance using
oximetry, Quick Walk Test and Single Breath Count.
Monitoring will be done daily until disappearance of symptoms or hospitalization which will
be requested by health workers or study coordination board on the basis of the monitoring
results (blood oxygen level SpO2< 90% OR SpO2> 90% with desaturation index of at least 5% at
Quick Walk Test)
Other: home care monitoring
home care active monitoring of patients with suspected of confirmed COVID-19
Inclusion criteria:
adult patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 for whom home care is considered
appropriate.
Exclusion criteria: physical, mental or temporary impairments that preclude the conduction
of the test
Asl Alessandria
Casale Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy
Guido Bertolini, MD, Principal Investigator
Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research