Impact of a telehealth intervention to augment home health care on functional and recovery outcomes of elderly patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting

The impact of discharge plan upon re-admission, satisfaction with nursing care and the ability to self-care for coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients

“…Barnason et al also demonstrated that the improved physical functionality after 3 months shows a significant difference compared to 6 weeks after discharge. 7 The causes of readmission in control group were variation in blood pressure, leg wound infection, cramps in legs, and pain while chest pain and respiratory infection were the reasons of readmission in experiment group. Therefore it seems to be associated to content of intervention.…”

Health-related quality of life after coronary artery bypass grafting. The impact of a randomised controlled home-based intervention program

“…Previous RCTs have failed to find significant improvement for the intervention group in CABG patients' HRQoL, with the exception of a home-based exercise intervention [10]. A majority of the studies had small sample size (range = 35-86) [6][7][8][9]11], and some studies focussed only on the elderly [7] or those with heart failure [6], or used a multi-ethnic perspective [11]. The significant improvements both in the intervention and the control group for the majority of HRQoL scales are important information from the patients' perspective after CABG.…”

“…However, few randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have evaluated the effect of rehabilitation programs on CABG patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL). RCTs have tested a home communication intervention by telephone calls [5] or telehealth device [6,7], weekly group sessions with a behavioural and educational intervention [8], multidisciplinary cardiac rehabilitation groups [9] and home-based versus hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation focusing on exercise [10] or cognitive behavioural techniques [11]. Only for the exercise intervention [10] were there significant differences for the physical measures of HRQoL.…”

Internet Devices and Desires: A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials of Interactive, Internet-mediated, In-home, Chronic Disease Monitoring Programs

“…Only completed RCTs were considered, thus excluding pilot studies and descriptive mid-study reports [10,11,12].…”