Nephrocare mHealth Project: Telemonitoring of Blood Pressure

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Kidney Diseases; Blood Pressure

Treatments: Other: Telemonitoring of blood pressure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03708666

S60335

AZGS2017056 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Nephrocare mHealth project supports patients with Chronic Kidney Disease with a mobile application and telemonitoring. The application includes the follow-up of blood pressure.

Full description

Patients that are included in the Nephrocare mHealth project send their blood pressure results through an app or online website.

The clinical decision support system will alert the patient, as well as the general practitioner and the hospital when the blood pressure is too high or low. In addition the clinical decision support will calculate monthly averages and all the data are connected with the electronic patient files.

Enrollment: 79 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Dutch-speaking
• Signed and approved informed consent
• Follow-up by nephrology at the University Hospitals Leuven or General Hospital Groeninge

Exclusion criteria

• No Dutch-speaking
• Impaired cognitive condition or medically unstable

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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79 participants in 1 patient group

Telemonitoring of blood pressure

Other group

Description:

Patients measure their blood pressure and register their results on the app or website.

Treatment:

Other: Telemonitoring of blood pressure