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A Novel Digital Platform for a Monitored Home-based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
Published on: April 19, 2019
Home-based telemanagement in chronic heart failure: an 8-year single-site experience
Amerigo Giordano1, Emanuela Zanelli, Simonetta Scalvini
1Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Department, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS, Institute of Lumezzane, Via Giuseppe Mazzini 129, 25066 Lumezzane, Brescia, Italy. amerigo.giordano@fsm.it
Abstract:
During an eight-year period, 358 patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) were enrolled in a six-month home-based telemanagement (HBT) programme. The efficacy of the programme was evaluated in two four-year periods, based on changes in clinical, functional, Quality of Life (QoL) status and rate of hospital readmission. The New York Heart Association (NYHA) class and the number of patients with comorbidities increased significantly in the second period, while the number of patients with beta-blockers decreased significantly (P < 0.01). Following the HBT programme, non-cardiovascular hospital readmission rate and all-cause readmission rate increased by 11% (P < 0.03) and 13% (P < 0.05), respectively. On re-evaluation after six months (238 patients) there was a general improvement in clinical, functional and QoL status and a significant increase in the mean daily dosage of beta-blockers prescribed. Our experience confirms that HBT for patients with CHF is associated with favourable effects on hospital readmission for cardiovascular reasons and on QoL. However, a more comprehensive multidisciplinary approach will probably be required to obtain favourable effects on total morbidity.
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