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Long-term cost-effectiveness of home versus clinic-based management of chronic heart failure: the WHICH? study

Author: Maru, S. Country/countries: Australia Number of patients participating in the study: 280 This study was focused on patients living with Heart Failure
Intervention analysed in the study: Education based intervention Intervention components: E
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Setting of implementation: Home-care, Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Pharmacists, Physicians Targeted self-management behaviours: Communication with healthcare and/or social care providers, Condition-specific behaviours, Medication use and adherence
Intervention analysed in the study: Education based intervention Intervention components: E
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Setting of implementation: Home-care Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses Targeted self-management behaviours: Condition-specific behaviours, Eating behaviours, Medication use and adherence

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Hospital admissions All-cause hospital readmissions N/A
Mortality All causes of mortality N/A
Quality of life Quality of life EuroQoL (EQ-5D-5L) - generic HRQoL
Quality of life Quality of life N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 71.0 years (+/- a standard deviation of 14.0) Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: 30.1 (+/- a standard deviation of 9.2) 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 - All causes of mortality
Quality of life - Quality of life
Quality of life - Quality of life

Other publications associated with this study

Impact of home versus clinic-based management of chronic heart failure: the WHICH? (Which Heart Failure Intervention Is Most Cost-Effective & Consumer Friendly in Reducing Hospital Care) multicenter, randomized trial Link: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.06.025. Prolonged impact of home versus clinic-based management of chronic heart failure: extended follow-up of a pragmatic, multicentre randomized trial cohort Link: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.04.164. The WHICH? trial: rationale and design of a pragmatic randomized, multicentre comparison of home- vs. clinicbased management of chronic heart failure patients Link: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfr048. Cost-effectiveness of home versus clinic-based management of chronic heart failure: Extended follow-up of a pragmatic, multicentre randomized trial cohort - The WHICH? study (Which Heart Failure Intervention Is Most Cost-Effective & Consumer Friendly in R Link: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.08.066.