HOME: Home Monitoring of High-risk Pregnancies
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Home surveillance of pregnancies at risk.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy, Premature Preterm Rupture of Membranes, Preeclampsia, High Risk Pregnancy. Basic parameters: 18 years — 50 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Norway
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
The HOME Study: Home Monitoring of High-risk Pregnancies
Overview
High-risk pregnancies often require long-term hospitalization or outpatient maternal and/or fetal monitoring, placing a burden on patients, hospital resources and society. The demand for intensified pregnancy surveillance and interventions is increasing, due to the increased prevalence of risk factors like obesity and advanced maternal age, as well as altered guidelines resulting in increasing labor induction rates.The main aims of the HOME study (Home monitoring of pregnancies at risk) are to assess if home monitoring of selected high-risk pregnancies for maternal and fetal wellbeing is feasible, safe (in a clinical trial), cost-efficient, and simultaneously empowers the users.
Interventions
- Other Home surveillance of pregnancies at risk
Offer women with pregnancies at risk home surveillance instaed of more frequent hospital out-patient visits and/or hospitalisation: cardiotocographia (CTG), patient measurements of CRP, temperature, blood pressure, and clinical signs of infection or severe forms of preeclampsia.
Primary outcome measures
- Feasibility of Home monitoring of high-risk pregnancies [Time frame: 2022-2035]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- User acceptability of home monitoring [Time frame: 2022-2035]
- Clinical safety of home monitoring [Time frame: 2022-2035]
- Health economics of home monitoring [Time frame: 2022-2035]
- Placenta-associated biomarkers: improving CTG prediction of adverse outcomes? [Time frame: 2023-2035]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Preeclampsia
- Gestational Hypertension
- Premature Preterm Rupture of Membranes
- High Risk Pregnancy
- Previous adverse obstetric outcomes
Exclusion criteria
- Multiples (twins, triplets etc)
- Patient or fetus in immediate need for delivery
- Not understanding Norwegian
- Not mastering the technological aspects of home monitoring
- Long travel distance to Obstetric Department
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Norway · 1 center
- Oslo University Hospital — Oslo
Publications
- Waldum AH, Pay ASD, Aasbo G, Mishra VK, Sugulle M, Staff AC. The HOME (home monitoring of high-risk pregnancies) study: a study protocol for an observational study of a telemedicine-assisted follow-up at home vs. hospitalization. Front Glob Womens Health. 2025 Jul 14;6:1599153. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2025.1599153. eCollection 2025. PMID 40726590
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05763069 · 473099