Pip Care to Improve Surgical Patient Outcomes

Conditions

• Abdominal Surgery

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Pip Care Digital Health Platform — OTHER
  Pip Care Digital Health Platform is a smartphone application granting access to a health coach who will assist the patient in completing a health intake, creating personalized perioperative care plans, and meets regularly with the patient to encourage goal accomplishments and supports healthy surgical recovery.
• Standard of Care Protocol — OTHER
  Subjects in this intervention group will receive routine, standard of care throughout their surgery and hospital stay as determined by their acting clinical care team.

Study Details

Pip Care is developing a personalized, interactive surgical journey platform with a live health coach that works directly with health systems to optimize the perioperative care process. Our Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant platform, Pip, can be integrated into any electronic medical record (EMR), thus alleviating the administrative burden by making operational workflows more efficient. The PIP empowers patients and their families to be more involved in their care by breaking down a patient's healthcare plan into definable, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-complete tasks. Additionally, a health coach completes a health intake to create a personalized perioperative care plan, meets regularly with the patient to encourage goal accomplishment, and facilitates care coordination. This project has 2 phases; Phase I is to assess usability of the Pip Care platform in surgical patients, Phase II is a RCT (Randomized Controlled Trial) to assess surgical clinical outcomes while using Pip compared to standard of care.

Key Dates

Start date

Oct 13, 2025

Status verified

Oct 2025

Primary completion

Sep 1, 2028

Completion

Sep 1, 2028

Study Design

Enrollment

1,300 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Arms

• Experimental: Pip Care Intervention Group
  Subjects randomized to the Pip Care Intervention group will receive access to the Pip Care digital health platform 1-week prior to their scheduled elective, inpatient surgery and retain access to the digital health platform for 30-days following surgery.
• Active Comparator: Standard of Care Group
  Subjects randomized to the standard of care group will receive routine standard of care for their planned elective, inpatient surgery.

Primary Outcome Measure

Length of Hospital Stay [ Time Frame: Up to 7 days following surgery ]

Central Contacts

• Carly Riedmann, MPH
  412-623-4147
  [email protected]
• Amy Monroe, MPH, MBA
  [email protected]

Locations (8)

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