CONTECI Program: A New Way to Control Peripheral Arterial Disease Using New Technologies

Consorci Sanitari del Maresme

Status: Completed

Conditions: Personal Satisfaction; Telemedicine; Peripheral Arterial Disease

Treatments: Other: Selfmanage with the help of telemedicine program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02762916

18/14

Details and patient eligibility

About

The current increase in chronic diseases calls for changes to the health system. It is necessary to promote expert patient in chronic disease. The expansion of new technologies gives us new tools to face new challenges, providing efficiency, expertise and autonomy. The characteristics of peripheral arterial disease make possible to promote expert patient and the self-management. In order to bring these concepts together the telemedicine program was created to promote expert patient for increasing the quality of life and satisfaction of patients and improving the efficiency of the health system.

Methods: Randomized clinical trial on patients with peripheral arterial disease in intermittent claudication grade. They were randomized into two groups: intervention arm (IA) using CONTECI program for self-managing and control arm (CA), followed as usual vascular visits.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient with confirmed PAD
• Over 18 years old
• Informed Consent
• Internet Access (patient or family)
• Spanish or Catalan fluidity

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive impairment
• Previous patency arterial surgery
• Sever chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (GOLD III/ IV)
• Patients with decreased survival of 12 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

1- Telemedicine arm

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention arm (IA), telehealth control, were followed up by himself helped by CONTECI program. They have to use every three months and if somethings was wrong the patient have to send mail to the doctor. The intervention consisted to use the CONTECI program (included test) for the following of the patients.

Treatment:

Other: Selfmanage with the help of telemedicine program

2- Control arm

No Intervention group

Description:

The Control Arm (CA) were followed up as usual every 6 months in outpatient vascular visits in the clinical hospital. If some patient have a complications or and emergency they have to do usual protocol, go to primary care or emergency.