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Usefulness of frailty profile for targeting older heart failure patients in disease management programs: A cost-effectiveness, pilot study

Author: Pulignano, G. Country/countries: Italy Number of patients participating in the study: 184 This study was focused on patients living with Heart Failure
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Plus Intervention components: UCP
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Setting of implementation: Primary care centers (GPs) Professionals delivering the intervention: Physicians Targeted self-management behaviours: N/A
Intervention analysed in the study: Monitoring techniques Intervention components: E+MT
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Setting of implementation: Outpatient care (hospital), Primary care centers (GPs) Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses, Physicians Targeted self-management behaviours: Communication with healthcare and/or social care providers, Condition-specific behaviours, Early recognition of symptoms, Eating behaviours, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

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Hospital admissions All-cause hospital admissions N/A
Hospital admissions HF-related hospital admissions N/A
Mortality All causes of mortality N/A
Mortality Cardiovascular-related mortality N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 77.0 years (+/- a standard deviation of 5.0) Gender: 48.0% female Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: 33.4 (+/- a standard deviation of 10.7) Multi-morbidity: N/A
  • Number of co-morbidities: N/A

Level of health literacy: N/A
  • Tool: N/A

Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Desenlace Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital admissions
Hospital admissions - HF-related hospital admissions
Mortality - All causes of mortality
Mortality - Cardiovascular-related mortality

Other publications associated with this study

Role of a multidisciplinary program in improving outcomes in cognitively impaired heart failure older patients Enlace: 10.4081/monaldi.2012.140 Two-year outcome of a prospective, controlled study of a diseasemanagement programme for elderly patients with heart failure. Enlace: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e32801164cb.