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Effectiveness of visits from community pharmacists for patients with heart failure: HeartMed randomised controlled trial
See more Setting of implementation: Home-care Professionals delivering the intervention: N/A Targeted self-management behaviours: N/A
Components
Individual sessions
A single person receives the self-management support. Examples: self-guided actions (without the participation of any other person) during a clinical visit or within the context of a support or educational session
Face-to-face
Self-management support delivered in a face-to-face encounter between the providers and patients and/or caregivers.
See more Setting of implementation: Home-care Professionals delivering the intervention: Pharmacists Targeted self-management behaviours: Eating behaviours, Medication use and adherence, Physical activity /exercise, Self-monitoring, Smoking cessation or reduction
Components
Education (E)
Monitoring techniques (MT)
Monitoring techniques (MT)
Self-monitoring training and feedback. Training and encouraging people to recognize, monitor, and record behaviours, symptoms, or clinical data. This process may include regular feedback from a clinician, or a synopsis of information registered in a digital tool to encourage you to continue monitoring your illness and behaviours.
Example: Showing a patient how to record blood sugar levels, physical activity, or pain.
Individual sessions
A single person receives the self-management support. Examples: self-guided actions (without the participation of any other person) during a clinical visit or within the context of a support or educational session
Face-to-face
Self-management support delivered in a face-to-face encounter between the providers and patients and/or caregivers.
Outcomes measured in the study
Outcome | Measure | Tool |
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Adherence to medication or other treatment | Adherence to medication | Medication Adherence Report Scale (MARS) |
Hospital admissions | All-cause hospital readmissions | N/A |
Mortality | All causes of mortality | N/A |
Quality of life | Quality of life | EuroQol Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-5D VA) |
Quality of life | Quality of life | EuroQoL (EQ-5D-5L) - generic HRQoL |
Quality of life | Quality of life | N/A |
Patient characteristics
Number of co-morbidities: N/A
Tool: N/A
Risk of Bias of this study
Outcome | Random sequence generation | Allocation concealment | Blinding performance | Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment | Attrition incomplete outcome | Incorrect statistical methods | Recruitment bias | Selective outcome reporting |
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Adherence to medication or other treatment - Adherence to medication | ||||||||
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital readmissions | ||||||||
Mortality - All causes of mortality | ||||||||
Quality of life - Quality of life | ||||||||
Quality of life - Quality of life | ||||||||
Quality of life - Quality of life |
Learn more about the intervention: Monitoring techniques
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Related cost-effectiveness analysis |
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To learn more about the cost-effectiveness of self-management interventions check our section on the topic: Cost-effectiveness
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Related contextual analysis |
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To learn more about the contextual factors that can facilitate or hinder the implementation of a self-management intervention check our section on the topic: Contextual factors
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