NCT03294811

A Two-way Communication System to Coach Elderly Patients With Heart Failure

CARDIOCOACH: Development of an Intelligent Two-way Communication System to Coach Elderly Patients With Heart Failure in Their Home Situation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hasselt University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is an open randomized clinical trial with two study arms. One group, receiving usual care for heart failure, will be compared to another group, receiving usual care plus active telemonitoring interference. When leaving the hospital, the usual care arm receives a document with a predefined medication scheme and advice for the general practitioner (like it is currently done in usual care). The telemonitoring interference in the other study arm consists of a smartphone application to register medication intake and to transmit the data of an automatic blood pressure device and a balance to a central platform. The goal is to improve medication uptitration (angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor (ACE-I) and bètablockers (BB)) in heart failure patients and to improve medication compliance.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Telemonitoring	The telemonitoring interference in the telemonitoring arm consists of a smartphone application that helps the patient to take their medication in time and to take their blood pressure and weight on a daily basis in order to improve the medication uptitration and medication compliance.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-05-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-15
• Completion: 2018-04-04
• First posted: 2017-09-27
• Last updated: 2019-05-13

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Belgium