Telehealth, Telehealth Services
Conditions
Keywords
Telehealth, heart failure, rehospitalization, mortality
Brief summary
Heart failure is associated with high incidence and mortality rates, limited physical activity, decreased quality of life, and increased healthcare expenses. Implementing a Telehealth Care (TC) HF program could address these challenges while improving patient outcomes.
Detailed description
Telemonitoring for heart failure patients reduces all-cause and cardiovascular mortality by enabling early intervention during clinical deterioration, improving outcomes even for those recently discharged. Moreover, a reduction in the percentage of days lost due to unplanned cardiovascular hospital admissions is evident. Furthermore, the rapid expansion of telehealth care and telemedicine services during the COVID-19 pandemic optimized the management and care quality of heart failure patients through telemonitoring .
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Mackay Memorial Hospital
National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
Pei-Hung Liao
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Inpatients diagnosed with heart failure were enrolled, with patients automatically selected daily by the electronic medical record system. A list of ward visits was obtained based on the first three digits of the International Classification of Diseases 10th edition diagnosis codes; the ICD-10 code I50 was applied for selection.
Exclusion criteria
* Other diagnosis
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| mortality and rehospitalization rates | After discharge one year | analyze the one-year all-cause mortality and rehospitalization rates in patients with and without telehealth care while examining cardiovascular mortality and rehospitalization rates simultaneously. |
Outcome results
None listed