Title:	IMPROVING CHRONIC HEART FAILURE PATIENT SELF CARE THROUGH MOBILE MONITORING OF SUBTLE BEHAVIORAL/PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES
Author(s):	Paul J Fortier , Sindhu Chandron , Binya Joshi , Praveena Narra
ISBN:	978-972-8924-77-5
Editors:	Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2009
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Mobile learning, clinical nursing / patient DSS tool
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	73
Last Page:	80
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Despite the fact that elderly patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) represent the majority of hospitalizations among adults over 65, little is known concerning their survival based on disease management. The numbers of CHF patients that die within 10 years of the onset of symptoms is staggering. The objective of this project is to develop a mobile patient monitoring, symptom recognition and self intervention system along with a complementary clinical nurse patient monitoring and decision support tool. The goal of the patient mobile learning tool is to assist patients through simple interactions and feedback to learn how to recognize the relative status of their health condition, to recognize and understand symptom and status changes either positively or negatively and to develop and put into place self interventions that can be tried in between clinical encounters with a health care professional. The nursing mobile tool allows the clinical nurse practitioner to select a patient to examine, extract out self reporting information, combine this with clinician entered measurements to determine the status of a patient and develop an intervention plan tailored to the specific patients needs. The foundation for the tool has been developed as well as a prototype implementation. The researchers are presently developing a clinical trial for the device along with the clinical protocols within a proposed national institute of health research project.
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