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Heart Failure Patient Self-Management Web Portal Pilot Study

NCT01009151 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 43

Last updated 2015-05-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The proposed pilot project is aimed at assessing the feasibility, acceptability and impact of a web-based home tele-monitoring system among congestive heart failure patients at the University of Michigan Health System. The intervention consists of daily reporting via the internet on health parameters, such as weight, blood pressure, heart rate and heart failure symptoms. In addition to symptom and data reporting, the system provides links to educational material on heart failure and reminders for self-care measures. It is designed as an inexpensive, user-friendly, and clinically effective system.

Each patient will be provided with a unique name and password, and will be instructed on how to use the self-management website.

The proposed home monitoring system study holds the potential to improve the lives of heart failure patients treated at the University of Michigan Health System by empowering them to participate actively in their care and to reduce the risk of hospitalization. As heart failure represents the most common hospital diagnosis related group (DRG)among the elderly, this study offers a significant public health benefit.

Conditions

  • Congestive Heart Failure

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Heart Self Care Tracker

Web-based home tele-monitoring system serving congestive heart failure patients at the University of Michigan Health System. The intervention consists of daily reporting via the Internet on parameters specified in clinical protocols, including weight, blood pressure, heart rate and heart failure symptoms. These protocols contain automated trigger mechanisms when certain values are exceeded to alert the provider and the patient for the need to take appropriate remedial action. The system provides links to educational material on heart failure and reminders for self-care measures.

BEHAVIORAL

Heart Care Self Tracker

Web-based Home Tele-monitoring System

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Todd M Koelling, M.D. · University of Michigan

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-11-30
Primary Completion
2012-01-31
Completion
2012-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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