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An educative intervention to improve treatment compliance and to prevent readmissions of elderly patients with heart failure

Author: Falces, C. Country/countries: Spain Number of patients participating in the study: 103 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: Action-based behavioural techniques Intervention components: E+AB
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Setting of implementation: Home-care, Hospital care (hospitalized) Professionals delivering the intervention: Pharmacists Targeted self-management behaviours: Eating behaviours, Medication use and adherence

Outcomes measured in the study

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

Patient characteristics

Age: 79.5 years (+/- a standard deviation of 5.2) Gender: 58.0% female 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
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital readmissions
Hospital admissions - Hospital days (Lenght of stay)
Quality of life - Quality of life