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Effect of home-based telemonitoring using mobile phone technology on the outcome of heart failure patients after an episode of acute decompensation: randomized controlled trial

Author: Scherr, D. Country/countries: Austria Number of patients participating in the study: 120 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: N/A Professionals delivering the intervention: N/A 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, Hospital care (hospitalized) Professionals delivering the intervention: Physicians, Service Targeted self-management behaviours: Asking for professional help or emergency care when needed, Communication with healthcare and/or social care providers, Condition-specific behaviours, Device management, Medication use and adherence, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Hospital admissions All-cause hospital readmissions N/A
Mortality Cardiovascular-related mortality N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 66.5 years (+/- a standard deviation of 1.95) Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: 27.87 (+/- a standard deviation of 3.64) 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
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital readmissions
Mortality - Cardiovascular-related mortality