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Disease management in the treatment of patients with chronic heart failure who have universal access to health care: a randomized controlled trial

Author: Kalter-Leibovici, O. Country/countries: Israel Number of patients participating in the study: 1360 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: Outpatient care (hospital) 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: Home-care Professionals delivering the intervention: Dietician/nutritionist, Nurses, Physicians, Social worker Targeted self-management behaviours: Communication with healthcare and/or social care providers, Early recognition of symptoms, Medication use and adherence, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Exercise capacity (including effort test) Exercise capacity 6-min walking test (6MWT)
Exercise capacity (including effort test) Exercise capacity New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class of chronic HF
Hospital admissions Hospital days (Lenght of stay) N/A
Hospital admissions All-cause hospital admissions N/A
Hospital admissions HF-related hospital admissions N/A
Mortality All causes of mortality N/A
Quality of life Quality of life N/A
Quality of life Quality of life N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 70.7 years (+/- a standard deviation of 11.3) Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: N/A 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

Outcome Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
Exercise capacity (including effort test) - Exercise capacity
Exercise capacity (including effort test) - Exercise capacity
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital admissions
Hospital admissions - HF-related hospital admissions
Hospital admissions - Hospital days (Lenght of stay)
Mortality - All causes of mortality
Quality of life - Quality of life
Quality of life - Quality of life