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Impact on clinical events and healthcare costs of adding telemedicine to multidisciplinary disease management programmes for heart failure: Results of a randomized controlled trial

Author: Comin-Colet, J. Country/countries: Spain Number of patients participating in the study: 188 This study was focused on patients living with Heart Failure
Intervention analysed in the study: Monitoring techniques Intervention components: MT
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Setting of implementation: Home-care, Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses, Physicians Targeted self-management behaviours: Self-monitoring
Intervention analysed in the study: Monitoring and action-based behavioural techniques Intervention components: E+MT+AB
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Setting of implementation: Home-care Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses, Physicians, Service Targeted self-management behaviours: Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Hospital admissions Emergency room/department visits N/A
Hospital admissions All-cause hospital readmissions N/A
Hospital admissions HF-related hospital readmissions N/A
Hospital admissions Cardiovascular-related hospital readmissions N/A
Mortality All causes of mortality N/A
Mortality Cardiovascular-related mortality N/A
Quality of life Quality of life N/A
Self-efficacy Self-efficacy European Heart Failure Self-care Behavior Scale (EHFScBS-9)
Value for money of the self-management intervention Value for money of the self-management intervention N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 74.0 years (+/- a standard deviation of 11.0) Gender: 41.0% female Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: 47.0 (+/- a standard deviation of 16.0) 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 - Emergency room/department visits
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital readmissions
Hospital admissions - HF-related hospital readmissions
Hospital admissions - Cardiovascular-related hospital readmissions
Mortality - All causes of mortality
Mortality - Cardiovascular-related mortality
Quality of life - Quality of life
Self-efficacy - Self-efficacy
Value for money of the self-management intervention - Value for money of the self-management intervention

Other publications associated with this study

Efficacy of an Integrated Hospital-primary Care Program for Heart Failure: A Population-based Analysis of 56 742 Patients Link: 10.1016/j.rec.2013.12.005.