Accounting for Complexity in Home Telemonitoring: A Need for Context-Centred Evidence.

Autor: Ware P; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: patrick.ware@mail.utoronto.ca., Seto E; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Ross HJ; Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Canadian journal of cardiology [Can J Cardiol] 2018 Jul; Vol. 34 (7), pp. 897-904. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Jan 31.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2018.01.022
Abstrakt: Heart failure represents a significant burden for patients and the Canadian health care system. Home telemonitoring is proposed as an intervention that can improve heart failure outcomes by identifying opportunities for earlier clinical intervention and by providing patients with self-management support between scheduled clinic visits. The objective of this review is to provide clarity with respect to the most recent evidence of the effect of home telemonitoring on heart failure outcomes. Despite some strong evidence that telemonitoring can reduce the risk of mortality and heart failure-related hospitalizations, important inconsistencies exist in the evidence. This article proposes that much of the inconsistency results from differences in the patient population being studied, the type of home telemonitoring intervention, and the implementation setting. Also important is the degree to which intervention fidelity is maintained throughout the course of a study; this is emphasized through a review of the factors that influence the degree to which patients and health care providers use home telemonitoring interventions as intended. In this article we propose that for researchers to produce definitive answers regarding the effect of home telemonitoring on heart failure outcomes, interventions and studies need to be designed and tailored according to the characteristics of the target patient population and the implementation context.
(Copyright © 2018 Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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