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Evaluating Telehealth Home Care for Elderly Veterans With Congestive Heart Failure

NCT00057200 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 198

Last updated 2015-04-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the most common reasons for hospitalization in patients aged 65 years and older. Many hospitalizations for CHF are potentially preventable if the warning signs of decompensation are recognized and treated before the situation becomes emergent. Home-based intervention programs have reduced unplanned readmission rates for patients with CHF by up to 50 percent. Using advanced telecommunications technologies it is now possible to provide greatly improved access and availability of services in a more timely and cost effective manner directly to patients� homes. Although telehealth offers a number of theoretical advantages, few empirical studies have compared telehealth to traditional delivery modes, and virtually no studies have compared the effectiveness of alternative telehealth applications.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Telephone, videophone care

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Bonnie J. Wakefield, PhD RN · Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, IA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Completion
2005-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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