Use of home telemonitoring to support multidisciplinary care of heart failure patients in Finland: randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heart failure (HF) patients suffer from frequent and repeated hospitalizations, causing a substantial economic burden on society. Hospitalizations can be reduced considerably by better compliance with self-care. Home telemonitoring has the potential to boost patients' compliance with self-care, although the results are still contradictory.

Objective

A randomized controlled trial was conducted in order to study whether the multidisciplinary care of heart failure patients promoted with telemonitoring leads to decreased HF-related hospitalization.

Methods

HF patients were eligible whose left ventricular ejection fraction was lower than 35%, NYHA functional class ≥2, and who needed regular follow-up. Patients in the telemonitoring group (n=47) measured their bo

SUBMITTER: Vuorinen AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4275484 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature