Effect of a Standardized Nurse Case-Management Telephone Intervention on Resource Use in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

Abstract

The reduction in hospitalizations, costs, and other resource use achieved using standardized telephonic case management in the early months after a heart failure admission is greater than that usually achieved with pharmaceutical therapy and comparable with other disease management approaches.

The Effectiveness of the Exercise Education Programme on Fall Prevention of the Community-dwelling Elderly: A Preliminary Study

“…This method is the most convenient method to easily access patients in their home settings and is effective in providing opportunities to have continuous contact with these elderly patients (Muller, Vuckovic, Knox, & Williams, 2002). Riegel et al (2002) stated that telephone monitoring should be done at least once a week to be effective. In this study, telephone monitoring was conducted by an occupational therapist once every 2 days to check that the patients were implementing the exercise programme, to discuss any difficulties in implementing the programme, and to encourage the patients to continue to follow the exercise programme in order to prevent future falls.…”

Heart failure programmes in countries with a primary care‐based health care system. Are additional trials necessary? Design of the DEAL‐HF study

“…In seven studies, a reduction in the readmission rate, irrespective of cause [1,2,[7][8][9]11,13] was observed, and a reduction of readmissions for heart failure was demonstrated in five studies [1,4,6,11,12]. A statistically significant decrease in the number of days spent in hospital was reported in five studies [1,4,7,8,14].…”

“…Since this publication, many more relevant publications of randomised controlled trials have been reported. In Table 1, the characteristics of most of these trials are reported [1,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. All trials are designed as prospective, randomised, controlled trials, thus minimising the possibility of bias.…”

“…Significant cost-savings by a heart failure management programme were reported in three studies [4,6,9].…”

Telephone Care Management to Improve Cancer Screening Among Low-Income Women: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

“…In some settings, telephone infrastructures to support childhood immunization (19) and patients with chronic illnesses (20)(21)(22)(23) already exist. These infrastructures could add screening support for patients who are already enrolled, or they could expand services to others while making minimal additional demands on primary care practices (24).…”