Impact of Telehealth Care

Pei-Hung Liao

Overview

Heart failure is associated with high incidence and mortality rates, limited physical activity, decreased quality of life, and increased healthcare expenses. Implementing a Telehealth Care (TC) HF program could address these challenges while improving patient outcomes.

Telemonitoring for heart failure patients reduces all-cause and cardiovascular mortality by enabling early intervention during clinical deterioration, improving outcomes even for those recently discharged. Moreover, a reduction in the percentage of days lost due to unplanned cardiovascular hospital admissions is evident. Furthermore, the rapid expansion of telehealth care and telemedicine services during the COVID-19 pandemic optimized the management and care quality of heart failure patients through telemonitoring .

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Conditions

Telehealth Services Telehealth

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Inpatients diagnosed with heart failure were enrolled, with patients automatically selected daily by the electronic medical record system. A list of ward visits was obtained based on the first three digits of the International Classification of Diseases 10th edition diagnosis codes; the ICD-10 code I50 was applied for selection. Exclusion Criteria: * Other diagnosis

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

mortality and rehospitalization rates

analyze the one-year all-cause mortality and rehospitalization rates in patients with and without telehealth care while examining cardiovascular mortality and rehospitalization rates simultaneously.

Time frame: After discharge one year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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