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Lack of Long-Term Benefits of a 6-Month Heart Failure Disease Management Program

Author: Nguyen, V. Country/countries: Canada Number of patients participating in the study: 230 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 Intervention components: E+MT
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Setting of implementation: Outpatient care (hospital), Primary care centers (GPs) Professionals delivering the intervention: Educator, Nurses, Physicians Targeted self-management behaviours: Early recognition of symptoms, Eating behaviours, Medication use and adherence, Physical activity /exercise, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Hospital admissions All-cause hospital admissions N/A
Hospital admissions Hospital days (Lenght of stay) N/A
Mortality All causes of mortality N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 69.0 years (+/- a standard deviation of 10.0) Gender: N/A 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 admissions
Hospital admissions - Hospital days (Lenght of stay)
Mortality - All causes of mortality

Other publications associated with this study

Impact of care at a multidisciplinary congestive heart failure clinic: a randomized trial Link: 10.1503/cmaj.1041137.