Primary care-based telemonitoring for home care patients with heart failure and chronic lung disease
Completed
- Conditions
- Heart failure and chronic pulmonary diseaseCirculatory SystemHeart failure
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN89041993
- Lead Sponsor
- Basque Government (Spain) - Department of Health and Consumer Affairs
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 80
Inclusion Criteria
1. Home care patients aged over 70 years of any gender
2. Heart failure and/or chronic pulmonary disease
3. At least two hospital admissions during the previous year (with at least one of the admissions due to the above mentioned diseases)
Exclusion Criteria
1. Residents in nursing homes
2. Paediatric patients (younger than 14 years of age)
3. Refusal to participate in the study
4. Frequent users of specialist healthcare services (i.e., rehabilitation, haemodialysis, frequent visitors to hospital day-care centres, etc.)
5. Terminal illness with life expectancy less than 6 months
6. Cognitive impairment
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measured at 3, 6, and 12 months:<br>1. Number and duration of hospital admissions<br>2. Mortality rate<br>3. Cost-effectiveness
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measured at 3, 6, and 12 months:<br>1. Number of emergency department visits<br>2. Number of home visits<br>3. Number of primary care visits<br>4. Number of specialist care visits<br>5. Number of telephone contacts<br>6. Number of acute heart or respiratory decompensations<br>7. Quality of life (EQ-5D questionnaire at baseline and after 3, 6 and 12 months of follow-up)<br>8. Patient and professional satisfaction with the telemonitoring technology using validated questionnaires (after 3 months of follow-up)<br>9. Medication changes