NCT01700218

Integrated Telemonitoring and Nurse Support Evaluation

Integrated Telemonitoring and Nurse Support Evaluation in Heart Failure

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 350 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Medical University of Graz · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to test a new medical device for optimizing treatment of heart failure and compare its effect on outcome of patients with a recent hospitalization for worsening heart failure

Detailed description

Patients after an episode of acute heart failure have an increased risk of rehospitalisation and impaired prognosis for survival. Neither a sole mobile nurse support nor a sole telemonitoring system has been able to provide consistent data on a beneficial influence on prognosis. Furthermore, the influence of frequent measurements of NT-pro-BNP in a home setting of heart failure patients has not been investigated so far. This study will test a new medical device (software) for optimizing treatment of heart failure patients and evaluate its impact on outcome of these patients.

Conditions

• Chronic Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	telemonitoring
OTHER	control

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-10-01
• Primary completion: 2015-04-01
• Completion: 2015-10-01
• First posted: 2012-10-04
• Last updated: 2014-11-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Austria