You can now monitor a patient with suspected/confirmed COVID-19 with our remote monitoring questionnaire. You'll be able to send this to patients via text message and schedule these to be automatically delivered over multiple days.
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Patients will be asked about specific symptoms (e.g. breathlessness) and to provide temperature, blood pressure readings, and/or sats readings if they have access to the right equipment. You can see the full list of questions here.

Simply open the patient in your Accurx Desktop toolbar, open the SMS box, select 'Questionnaires' and select 'COVID-19 Remote Monitoring Questionnaire' as shown in the figma below 👇

💡 Top tip... You can now find questionnaires by simply typing what you're after in the Search box!

If you can't see this feature, please follow these instructions.

The patient will receive a text message with the link to the questionnaire, by clicking on this link they'll be able to start, answer, and submit the questionnaire.

Once the patient submits the questionnaire, you'll receive these replies on your Accurx Desktop toolbar.

If you're part of the "COVID-19 team" at your organisation you'll be notified of anything that comes into this inbox. To get notifications for this inbox, toggle the notifications to 'On' in the top right of the inbox and you'll be notified next time. 😊

You can save the responses to the patient's record by clicking on "Save to Record."

​How long does the patient have to complete this?

The patient will have 24 hours to complete the questionnaire from the time the SMS is sent.

This questionnaire allows you to save these vital signs SNOMED codes 👇

Patients will receive 2 texts if they have not completed the survey. They will receive one reminder after 2 hours and one after 6 hours.

If the patient doesn't respond to this questionnaire in 24 hours, the "COVID-19 Team" will receive a notification and the "Accurx Bot" will display the message "@COVID-19 Monitoring Team patient NAME has not completed their COVID-19 Remote Monitoring Questionnaire."

You'll be able to schedule the monitoring questionnaire to be sent to the patient over multiple days. To do this, click on "Add repeat date" at the bottom of the text.

You can change and choose the dates by clicking on the pencil icon to the right of the date. This will open a calendar picker, where you select the date you'd want to change it to. This includes changing the initial date so the questionnaire is not sent "Now" as shown below👇

You'll be able to schedule for multiple messages if you keep clicking "Add repeat date" at the bottom of the text.

These scheduled text messages will be sent to the patient at 9am of the selected days.

If you would like to cancel a questionnaire which is scheduled to be sent to the patient, you can do this after it's sent by using the steps in this article, or in the SMS box as shown here 👇

If you still have any questions or concerns, feel free to chat with us using the green message bubble in the bottom right-hand corner of this page. 👉