Economic Evaluation and Communication in Remote Monitoring of People With Pacemakers

NCT ID: NCT02237404

Last Updated: 2017-11-07

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

50 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2014-08-31

Study Completion Date

2017-11-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this research is to estimate the outcomes in health and cost of the follow-up of patients with pacemakers.

The initial hypothesize of this study is that remote monitoring of pacemaker will show a best relation of outcomes in costs and effectiveness than the conventional follow-up in hospital.

Detailed Description

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Cardiovascular Diseases are a major cause of global morbidity and mortality, being responsible according to the World Health Organization of the 30% of overall mortality.

Since 2001 that the first pacemaker of remote monitoring was implanted in Europe, more than 300,000 pacemaker have been implanted around the world. Despite this sharp expansion, the scientific evidence on economic evaluations of pacemaker with remote monitoring is very limited, and in our knowledge, studies including informal costs have not been conducted.

In the field of cardiology, telemedicine allows consultations with patients through monitoring systems and remote communication analyzing the ongoing heart rates of people with pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy and subcutaneous Holter. The use of remote monitoring may save time and efforts to both healthcare professionals and patients, including their informal caregivers, reducing the number of follow up visits to the hospital and reducing the associated costs with patient follow-up, which will help to improve sustainability of healthcare services.

During the 06 months of study, the patients with implant of pacemakers of both groups will be assessed of the same parameters, in 3 different moments (pre-implant and months 1, and 6 post-implantation).

Pacemakers that are going to be used in the project:

1. Remote monitoring group: Biotronik Estella SR-T and DR-T \& Biotronik Evia SR-T and DR-T.
2. Hospital monitoring group: St Jude Medical Endurity SR and DR \& Sorin Reply 200 SR and DR.

The study will estimate: 1) The Clinical features of the patients. 2) The effectiveness through of administration of Health-Related Quality of Life questionnaires and 3) Finally, hospital and informal costs of patients with pacemakers will be estimated by the researches.

Conditions

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Cardiovascular Disease

Keywords

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Follow-Up studies Biological Pacemakers Telemedicine Efficiency

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Hospital monitoring of pacemakers

Patients have to go to the hospital to be monitorized

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Remote monitoring of pacemakers

Telemedicine System:

Patients have not to go to the hospital to be monitorized

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Telemedicine System

Intervention Type DEVICE

Telemedicine System is used in remote monitoring group

Interventions

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Telemedicine System

Telemedicine System is used in remote monitoring group

Intervention Type DEVICE

Other Intervention Names

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Patients are monitorized from hospital

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Be 18 years of age
* Have a pacemaker implanted
* Understand and be able to properly perform self-monitoring at home

Exclusion Criteria

* Be participating in another study
* Refuse to participate in the study
* Have implanted a different cardiac device to the pacemaker
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Tromso

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Antonio Lopez Villegas

PhD student

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Nordland Hospital

Bodø, Nordland, Norway

Site Status

Countries

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Norway

References

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Lopez-Villegas A, Catalan-Matamoros D, Peiro S, Lappegard KT, Lopez-Liria R. Cost-utility analysis of telemonitoring versus conventional hospital-based follow-up of patients with pacemakers. The NORDLAND randomized clinical trial. PLoS One. 2020 Jan 29;15(1):e0226188. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226188. eCollection 2020.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31995558 (View on PubMed)

Lopez-Liria R, Lopez-Villegas A, Enebakk T, Thunhaug H, Lappegard KT, Catalan-Matamoros D. Telemonitoring and Quality of Life in Patients after 12 Months Following a Pacemaker Implant: the Nordland Study, a Randomised Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Jun 5;16(11):2001. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16112001.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31195650 (View on PubMed)

Lopez-Villegas A, Catalan-Matamoros D, Lopez-Liria R, Enebakk T, Thunhaug H, Lappegard KT. Health-related quality of life on tele-monitoring for users with pacemakers 6 months after implant: the NORDLAND study, a randomized trial. BMC Geriatr. 2018 Sep 21;18(1):223. doi: 10.1186/s12877-018-0911-3.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 30241511 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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008WABELCMW2014A

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id