Total Cardiac Care: a smartphone-based remote monitoring system for Heart Failure Patients

Not Applicable

• Conditions: heart failure; Cardiovascular - Other cardiovascular diseases

• Registration Number: ACTRN12620000888965
• Lead Sponsor: Prince of Wales Hospital

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2020-09-10
• Last Update Posted: 14 September 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

•Patient who is under the care of, or newly referred to, the community heart failure service at one of the three involved hospitals OR a patient with heart failure who is directly referred to the research team by the treating cardiologist.
•Patient owns a smartphone or iPad that has the capability to operate the TCC application
•Age over 18 years
•Able to provide written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

•Inability to use the TCC app and peripheral devices due to reasons including but not limited to:
oCognitive impairment
oImpaired dexterity to operate the app
oVisual impairment that would not allow adequate operation of the app
•Lack of fluency with English language

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
A process evaluation comprised of four separate primary endpoints is the overall aim. The first part of process evaluation will be assessed by quantification of how many potential participants were eligible to participate, and how many were recruited, this will be collected from medical records<br>[At the completion of the trial (when all participants have been enrolled for 6 months)];To determine app engagement (based on log ins, daily entries for each category of parameter being assessed, additional notes by patients).[At the completion of the trial (all participants enrolled for six months)];Documentation of nature and prevalence of alerts, and the management of each. Each alert will be documented in a study database. This endpoint is considered a composite primary outcome. [Completion of the trial - when all participants have completed the trial (i.e. all participants have been part of the trial for six months). ]