Trial reportThe American journal of medicine2018
Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Readmission for Heart Failure Using Novel Tablet and Nurse Practitioner Education.
Trial report in The American journal of medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Electronic Health Record Interventions to Reduce Risk of Hospital Readmissions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- [Education interventions in heart failure using m-Health: Systematic review].Atencion primaria · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review on the effectiveness and impact of clinical decision support systems for breathlessness.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions to Improve Communication at Hospital Discharge and Rates of Readmission: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2021Pooled it
- mHealth education interventions in heart failure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Clinical Impact of Digital Health Interventions with Educational Components for Patients with Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Gaps in Heart Failure Care: The Need for Effective Communication and Health Literacy-concordant Patient Education.US cardiology · 2025Review
- Experiences of adolescents using sexual health services on Reunion Island: protocol for a qualitative phenomenological study.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Virtual healthcare solutions in heart failure: a literature review.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Review
- Roles of Nursing in the Management of Geriatric Cardiovascular Diseases.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Review
- Nonpharmacological Interventions for Preventing Rehospitalization Among Patients with Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.SAGE open nursingArticle
- Article
- A Pilot Study to Evaluate a Computer-Based Intervention to Improve Self-care in Patients With Heart Failure.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
19 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundHeart failure education programs are not standardized. The best form of education is unclear. We evaluated whether addition of a novel tablet application to nurse practitioner (NP) education was superior to NP education alone in reducing 30-day readmission after heart failure hospitalization.
methodsFrom February 2015-March 2016, patients admitted to a quaternary academic center with primary diagnosis of heart failure were randomized to 1) treatment - NP education plus tablet application (interactive conditional logic program that flags patient questions to medical staff), or 2) control - NP education. The primary outcome was reduction in 30-day readmission rate. Secondary outcomes included satisfaction and education assessed via survey.
resultsRandomization included 60 patients to treatment and 66 to control. A total of 13 patients withdrew prior to intervention (treatment n = 4, control n = 1) or were lost to follow-up (treatment n = 3, control n = 5). The 30-day readmission rate trended lower for treatment compared with control, but results were not statistically significant (13.2% [7/53], 26.7% [16/60], respectively, P = .08). Similarly, satisfaction trended higher with treatment than control (P = .08). Treatment patients rated explanations from their physicians higher than control (Always: 83.7%, 55.8%, respectively, P = .01).
conclusionsNP education plus tablet use was not associated with significantly lower 30-day readmission rates in comparison with NP alone, but a positive trend was seen. Patient satisfaction trended higher and heart failure explanations were better with NP education plus tablet. A larger study is needed to determine if NP education plus tablet reduces readmission rates following heart failure admission.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.