Heart Failure Patient Self-Management Web Portal Pilot Study
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Congestive Heart Failure
In brief
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.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01009151
- Run by
- University of Michigan
- People needed
- 43
- Starts
- 2009-11-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-05-27
Who can join
Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Inclusion criteria
- Clinical diagnosis of heart failure with NYHA II-IV symptoms, or evidence of at least one heart failure hospitalization within the past 12 months.
- Provider permission to approach patient for enrollment
- Willingness to sign informed consent
You may not qualify if…
- Exclusion criteria include patients who are
- Under the age of 19
- Asymptomatic heart failure
- Prisoners
- Residents of long term nursing facilities
- Receiving dialysis
- Serum creatinine ≥ 3.5 mg/dL
- Candidates for revascularization
- Candidates for valve replacement or repair
- With comorbidity (i.e. metastatic cancer) that is likely to lead to rehospitalization or death within a 12 month period
- Due to a reversible cause (i.e. hypothyroidism, anemia, etc)
- With pulmonary arterial hypertension that is not due to left ventricular dysfunction.
- Pregnant women or women of child bearing potential who are actively attempting to become pregnant or are not using an accepted form of contraception
Where it is running
- University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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