A Mobile Phone-Based Telemonitoring Program for Heart Failure Patients After an Incidence of Acute Decompensation (Medly-AID): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with heart failure (HF) are at the highest risk for hospital readmissions during the first few weeks after discharge when patients are transitioning from hospital to home. Telemonitoring (TM) for HF management has been found to reduce mortality risk and hospital readmissions if implemented appropriately; however, the impact of TM targeted for patients recently discharged from hospital, for whom TM might have the biggest benefit, is still unknown. Medly, a mobile phone-based TM system that is currently being used as a standard of care for HF at a large Canadian hospital, may be an effective tool for the management of HF in patients recently discharged from hospital.

Objective

The objective of the Medly-After an Incidence of acute Decompensation (Medly-AID)

SUBMITTER: Seto E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7003117 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature