NCT01755988

Effectiveness of a Website and Telemonitoring in Patients With Heart Failure.

Effectiveness of an Interactive Web-based Platform and a Disease Specific Information Website in Patients With Heart Failure: a 3-arm Randomised Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 450 (actual)
• Sponsor: UMC Utrecht · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The number of people with heart failure is increasing in the western world. Mainly due to better treatment of myocardial infarctions and ageing of the population. The amount of health care workers is unfortunately not increasing. We want to investigate how two electronic devices (a website and an interactive web-based platform) influence the self-care, quality of life, hospitalizations and mortality by delivering care from a distance. We also want to investigate if a higher quality of care is delivered despite of less frequent visits to a nurse and/or doctor. The study takes place in the Netherlands and is a randomized trial. Patients with heart failure, registered by an outpatient heart failure clinic or general practitioner can take part. They will be randomized to 3 groups: group 1 receives standard care, group 2 receives standard care with the website, group 3 receives an adjusted care pathway, with both the website and the interactive web-based platform connected to a telemonitoring system. In this group all routine consultations with heart failure nurses and general practitioner will be substituted by this device.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Educational website (in addition to usual care).
OTHER	Website and interactive platform with telemonitoring.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-09-01
• Primary completion: 2015-12-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2012-12-24
• Last updated: 2017-01-05

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: Netherlands