Telemedicine Qualifying Transition Between Tertiary and Primary Health Care in Stable Coronary Artery Disease Patients (Tele_DAC)

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Coronary Artery Disease

Treatments

Other: Telemedicine

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02489565

401463/2013-3 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

GPPG 14-0206

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the telemedicine use in primary health care is effective in the accompaniment of stable coronary artery disease patients who were discharged from the tertiary health care clinics.

Full description

This study is a randomized non-inferiority trial for patients with chronic coronary artery disease from a tertiary hospital with outpatient discharge criteria. The purpose is to compare the use of telemedicine in the quality of care transition between tertiary care and primary care patients (intervention group), with patients who remain in the outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital (control group).

Enrollment

264 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

individuals with diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) in Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS)'s functional classification of angina Class I or II
patients who did not submit hospitalization for cardiovascular disease in the last year

Exclusion criteria

patients who were not followed up in the health service to at least one year
unstable patients requiring adjustments of medications or who are performing some diagnostic evaluation at discharge outpatient