[PDF] Top 20 A heart failure self management program for patients of all literacy levels: A randomized, controlled trial [ISRCTN11535170]

... York Heart Association class II- IV symptoms within the last 3 ...months. Patients were excluded if they had moderate to severe dementia (based on the treating physician's clinical judgment), terminal ... See full document

... 39 patients in each group. Thus, 78 eligible patients were recruited between April and July 2014 from the Cardiac Internal Medicine ward and Coronary Care Unit in Rajaei Heart Center affiliated to ... See full document

... York Heart Association classes of heart failure , with left ventricular ejection fraction of 45% or less at initial admission diagnosis of ...CHF. Patients were excluded if they met any of the ... See full document

... Ethical considerations All participants will read and sign an informed consent form before entering the study. The study protocol was approved by the HCPA Institutional Review Board (proto- col number 10-0376) and ... See full document

... for heart failure and mortality were each reported in three of the six studies, and thus data was available for less than one half of the patients in the included studies, which may have affected the ... See full document

... a randomized controlled trial. eighty eligible patients, with the ability to read and speak in Farsi, aged between 15 to 60, were included in the study from the cardiac surgery clinic in Imam ... See full document

... N ¼ 2n ð 1 þ 20% Þ Data analysis Data entry and management will be completed by an in- dependent data administrator to ensure data accuracy. A professional statistician will perform the data analysis for the ... See full document

... To compare hospital admission data recorded every 6 months in the two treatment groups, non-linear mixed models were used with a random intercept for each sub- ject, allowing for correlation between repeated measure- ... See full document

... Nurse program Before discharge from the hospital, all pa- tients were given instruction about their disease ...telesurveillance program [16, 17] is de- signed to provide multidisciplinary care ... See full document

... patient self titrating their ...potassium levels (less than ...of all events, the educator is instructed to bring to the site investigator's attention potential adverse events that she learns about ... See full document

... The management of the database and statistical ana- lyzes were performed by an independent researcher, blinded regarding the ...for all out- come ...the patients who started and completed the ... See full document

... of patients in the intervention and control group was ...of self-care ...for all subscales and total score of self-care behaviors in the intervention group than the control group (Table ... See full document

... and heart rate for assessment of ...where all screened potential participants are recorded and the reason if they are not enrolled in the ...of patients we have accessed and the ability to iden- tify ... See full document

... of all patients with heart failure (HF) have a normal or near-normal ejection fraction and their prognosis differs little from that of patients with a reduced ejection fraction, the ... See full document

... adult patients in inpatient re- habilitation clinics with the main diagnosis fibromyalgia syndrome (ICD-10: ...impairment. Patients with FMS are admitted to the clinics every two weeks. All ... See full document

... HF patients should be ...which patients may be affected”, (Dewalt, et al, ...improving self-management and empowerment with improved support systems and have developed an “Universal Tool Kit” ... See full document

... open program Openepi ...research. All researchers directly involved in the care and follow-up of the partici- pating patients will not be aware of the supplements taken by the study ...the ... See full document

... NO program (in Portuguese: Free Program of Educa- tion and Exercise for Osteoarthritis) for elderly patients with KOA for a duration of three ...of self-efficacy to manage the pathology. When ... See full document

... patient levels. In order to minimize biases as much as possible, all study partici- pants will be discouraged from discussing with one an- other their practice in the ...the patients in each group ... See full document

... coronary heart disease by 5 to 17% and all-cause mortality by 6 to 15% ...help patients to complete the questionnaires and will make appointments for follow-up ...the patients. Third, although ... See full document