I- Corps Supplement to The PPAL: The Bedside Commode as a Safe Self-Toilet Transfer Device for Aging Adults I-Corps Program,

I-Corps 对 PPAL 的补充：床边马桶作为老年人的安全自助厕所转移设备 I-Corps 计划，

• 批准号: 10561251
• 负责人: Margaret Ellen Graham
• 金额: $ 5.5万
• 依托单位: QUA, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-11 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10561251
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Aging; Businesses; Caregivers; Clinical; Consult; Dependence; Destinations; Devices; Discipline of Nursing; Drops; Elderly; Ensure; Environment; Floor; Health system; Healthcare; Height; Home; Hospital Nursing; Industrialization; Industry; Innovation Corps; Intelligence; Intervention; Interview; Leadership; Lifting; Lower Extremity; Nursing Homes; Pathway interactions; Patients; Persons; Phase; Physical Efforts; Price; Privatization; Reporting; Research; Risk; Safety; Secure; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Solid; Surface; Testing; Universities; Weight; Wheelchairs; acute care; cohort; commercialization; disability; fall injury; fall risk; human subject; innovation; interest; musculoskeletal injury; novel; programs; prototype; recruit; residence; safe patient; success; usability; willingness

The PPAL® I-CORP PROGRAM SUMMARY Bedside commodes are prescribed for older adults with mobility disabilities to reduce the risk of falling associated with being unable to safely access a bathroom to manage their toileting. Yet, older adults with lower extremity weakness are highly dependent on personal assistance to transfer onto commodes, creating a risk of falls/musculoskeletal injuries for themselves and their caregivers. The “PPAL®” takes a novel and innovative approach to address that fall/injury risk by resolving the transfer difficulties associated with using commodes. In Phase I, Georgia Tech created a PPAL® prototype that securely affixes a transfer board connected to a seat that is elevated by an internal motorized lift. The result is a stable, bidirectional, and “always downhill” transfer pathway, regardless of the height of the destination surface. They are currently recruiting for 10 human subjects - adults aging with lower extremity weakness - to test the prototype for safety and usability. For Phase II, QUA, the SBIR company, is working with the University of Pittsburgh on a research plan that will refine the size and weight of the PPAL®, add wheelchair - commode transfers and conduct safety/usability tests in the homes of potential PPAL® users. To ensure success all three phases of this SBIR, QUA created a 3-person team for the February 2022 Innovation Corps Cohort, comprised of Peg Graham, QUA Owner and the PI/DP; Industry Expert Teresa Boynton, a Safe Patient Handling & Mobility expert; and Technical Expert Paul Carlson, an Industrial Designer. The team will conduct at least 100 Customer Discovery interviews to gather market intelligence on toileting dependency and industry interest in a product that reduces patient/staff risk for falls/musculoskeletal injury. The I-Corps team will have the benefit of a Technical Business Assessment (TABA) report from Vikriti Management Consulting, a consult with Entrepreneur in Residence John Sullivan, and the willingness of QUA’s Advisory Board to assist with access to key influencers and decisionmakers across the healthcare spectrum. Specific aims of this I-Corp Project are to (1) assess clinical acceptance of the PPAL® by Safe Patient Handling & Mobility programs in hospitals and nursing homes; (2) explore health system leadership interest in the PPAL® as a toileting intervention for the acute care, homecare and skilled nursing environments; and (3) validate proposed price points, selling cycle assumptions, and volume estimates for solid financial projections for presentation to private investors. The PPAL® I-Corp team will produce a report to inform the Phase II Commercialization Plan.

PPAL®i-Corp计划摘要 床边洗手间是为行动不便的老年人开的处方，以降低患上 跌倒与无法安全进入卫生间来管理他们的厕所有关。然而， 患有四肢无力的老年人高度依赖个人帮助 转移到马桶上，给自己和他们的身体造成摔倒/肌肉骨骼损伤的风险 照顾者。 PPAL®采用了一种新颖和创新方法来解决跌倒/受伤风险 解决与使用马桶相关的传输困难。佐治亚理工学院第一阶段 创建了PPAL®原型，可将转接板牢固地固定到 由内部机动升降机提升。结果是一个稳定的、双向的、“总是走下坡路”的 转移路径，与目标表面的高度无关。他们目前正在招募 对于10名人类受试者--患有下肢无力的成年人--测试原型 安全性和可用性。在第二阶段，SBIR公司Qua正在与加州大学合作 匹兹堡在一项研究计划中，将完善PPAL®的尺寸和重量，增加轮椅- 在潜在的PPAL®用户家中进行便器传输和进行安全/可用性测试。 为了确保SBIR的所有三个阶段都取得成功，美国国税局为 2022年2月，创新队队列，由佩格·格雷厄姆、作为所有者和PI/DP组成； 行业专家Teresa Boynton，安全患者处理和移动专家；以及技术专家 保罗·卡尔森，工业设计师。团队将进行至少100次客户发现 采访以收集有关厕所依赖和行业对产品兴趣的市场情报 这降低了患者/工作人员摔倒/肌肉骨骼损伤的风险。I-Corps团队将受益于 咨询公司Vikriti Management Consulting的技术业务评估(Taba)报告 与常驻企业家John Sullivan在一起，以及Qua的顾问委员会愿意 协助接触医疗保健领域的关键影响因素和决策者。 I-Corp项目的具体目标是：(1)评估SAFE对PPAL®的临床接受度 医院和疗养院的病人处理和流动计划；(2)探索卫生系统 领导层对PPAL®感兴趣，将其作为急诊护理、家庭护理和熟练技能的厕所干预措施 护理环境；以及(3)验证建议的价格点、销售周期假设，以及 提供给私人投资者的可靠财务预测的成交量估计。 PPAL®i-Corp团队将编写一份报告，为第二阶段商业化计划提供信息。