Remote Monitoring and Behavioral Economics in Managing Heart Failure in Patients Discharged From the Hospital: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Close remote monitoring of patients following discharge for heart failure (HF) may reduce readmissions or death.

Objective

To determine whether remote monitoring of diuretic adherence and weight changes with financial incentives reduces hospital readmissions or death following discharge with HF.

Design, setting, and participants

The Electronic Monitoring of Patients Offers Ways to Enhance Recovery (EMPOWER) study, a 3-hospital pragmatic trial, randomized 552 adults recently discharged with HF to usual care (n = 280) or a compound intervention (n = 272) designed to inform clinicians of diuretic adherence and changes in patient weight. Patients were recruited from May 25, 2016, to April 8, 2019, and followed up for 12 months. Investigators were blinded to ass

SUBMITTER: Asch DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9171555 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature