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Effects of person-centred and integrated chronic heart failure and palliative home care. PREFER: a randomized controlled study

Author: Brannstrom, M. Country/countries: Sweden Number of patients participating in the study: 72 This study was focused on patients living with Heart Failure
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Intervention components: UC
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Setting of implementation: Home-care, Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses, Physicians Targeted self-management behaviours: N/A
Intervention analysed in the study: Action-based behavioural techniques and shared decision making Intervention components: E+AB+SD
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Setting of implementation: Home-care Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses, Ocuppational therapist, Physicians, Physiotherapists Targeted self-management behaviours: Condition-specific behaviours, Early recognition of symptoms, Handling /managing emotions, Self-monitoring, Social roles

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Exercise capacity (including effort test) Exercise capacity New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class of chronic HF
Hospital admissions All-cause hospital admissions N/A
Hospital admissions Hospital days (Lenght of stay) N/A
Quality of life Quality of life EuroQol Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-5D VA)

Patient characteristics

Age: 79.25 years (+/- a standard deviation of 8.83) Gender: 21 females 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
Exercise capacity (including effort test) - Exercise capacity
Hospital admissions - Hospital days (Lenght of stay)
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital admissions
Quality of life - Quality of life