The Effects of Self-monitoring With a Mobile Application in Heart Failure
Status: | Recruiting |
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Conditions: | Cardiology |
Therapuetic Areas: | Cardiology / Vascular Diseases |
Healthy: | No |
Age Range: | 45 - Any |
Updated: | 5/25/2018 |
Start Date: | March 6, 2017 |
End Date: | April 30, 2019 |
Contact: | Judith Grossi |
Email: | jgrossi@med.umich.edu |
Phone: | 734-232-6367 |
A Patient-centered Mobile Intervention to Promote Self-management and Improve Patient Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure
In the United States, about 40 percent of heart failure (HF) patients are readmitted within
1-year following their first admission for HF and hospitalization accounts for approximately
70 percent of the costs of HF management. As a result, the management of HF patients is
evolving from the traditional model of face-to-face follow-up visits toward a proactive
real-time technological model of assisting patients with monitoring and self-management while
in the community. The investigators plan to test the impact of a mobile application on
clinical outcomes in HF.
1-year following their first admission for HF and hospitalization accounts for approximately
70 percent of the costs of HF management. As a result, the management of HF patients is
evolving from the traditional model of face-to-face follow-up visits toward a proactive
real-time technological model of assisting patients with monitoring and self-management while
in the community. The investigators plan to test the impact of a mobile application on
clinical outcomes in HF.
HF patients with a reduced ejection fraction will be randomized to the mobile application
versus placebo for 12 weeks. The mobile application will provide the participants with a
reminder to perform self-monitoring, a health status indicator and heart failure education
for self-management.
All participants will complete the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire and
Self-Care Heart Failure Index. Hospital admissions and mortality will also be collected.
versus placebo for 12 weeks. The mobile application will provide the participants with a
reminder to perform self-monitoring, a health status indicator and heart failure education
for self-management.
All participants will complete the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire and
Self-Care Heart Failure Index. Hospital admissions and mortality will also be collected.
Inclusion Criteria:
- 45 years old or older
- Left ventricular ejection fraction = 40% or an LVEF > 40% (with left atrial size
>40mm or BNP > 200 pg/ml or NT-proBNP > 800 pg/ml)
- Admitted for acutely decompensated heart failure or recently discharged in the past 4
weeks.
- Smartphone (iOS or Android) with home wifi
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unstable coronary syndrome within 8 weeks (unstable angina, NSTEMI, STEMI)
- Primary valvular heart disease
- Known pericardial disease (Sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus)
- Uncorrected thyroid disease
- Advanced renal disease (dialysis or creatinine >4.0 mg/dL)
- End-stage HF (hospice candidate, home milrinone or dobutamine)
- Active cancer
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Discharge to a setting other than home
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