Supporting Care and Independence at Home

Summary

The primary objective of this project is to investigate whether, in a pilot randomised controlled trial, the use of telecare (remote monitoring) technologies reduces the frequency of hospital admissions for people with chronic heart failure (CHF) and to inform the design of a larger randomised controlled trial of telecare for CHF.

Secondary objectives are:

1. To investigate whether there are benefits to users
2. To understand the impact on carers in terms of carer stress
3. To investigate whether there are benefits to the NHS and other statutory provisions
4. To investigate which users receive the greatest benefits
5. To inform whether remote monitoring of CHF patients should be provided as part of hospital discharge for a set period of time or whether it should be provided long term and be used in a preventative manner
6. To investigate whether CHF episodes can be detected and predicted based on lifestyle changes
7. To determine whether lifestyle monitoring equipment can be correlated with the information from the CHF monitoring system to determine the potential to detect deteriorating health.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

DEVICE

Chronic heart failure monitoring system

DEVICE

Lifestyle monitoring system

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK

  collaborator OTHER

• Imperial College London

  collaborator OTHER

• University College, London

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Dundee

  collaborator OTHER

• Anchor Trust

  collaborator OTHER

• Thomas Pocklington Trust

  collaborator OTHER

• Tunstall

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Barnsley Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Mark Hawley · Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

60 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2005-11-30

Primary Completion

2007-09-30

Completion

2009-02-28

Countries

• United Kingdom

Study Locations