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Exercise: a "new drug" for elderly patients with chronic heart failure

Author: Antonicelli, R. Country/countries: Italy Number of patients participating in the study: 343 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 delivered remotely Intervention components: E+MT+R
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Setting of implementation: Home-care, Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses, Physiotherapists Targeted self-management behaviours: Early recognition of symptoms, Eating behaviours, Physical activity /exercise, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Exercise capacity (including effort test) Exercise capacity 6-min walking test (6MWT)
Hospital admissions All-cause hospital admissions N/A
Quality of life Quality of life N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 76.9 years (+/- a standard deviation of 5.67) Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: 48.4 (+/- a standard deviation of 13.4) 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
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital admissions
Quality of life - Quality of life

Other publications associated with this study

Antonicelli supplementary file