ReviewESC heart failure2022
Digital health in older adults for the prevention and management of cardiovascular diseases and frailty. A clinical consensus statement from the ESC Council for Cardiology Practice/Taskforce on Geriatric Cardiology, the ESC Digital Health Committee and the ESC Working Group on e-Cardiology.
Review in ESC heart failure, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- Digital Health Interventions for Heart Failure Management in Underserved Rural Areas of the United States: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Pooled it
- Digital consults in heart failure care: a randomized controlled trial.Nature medicine · 2024Trial
- Digital Health Technologies to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity and Reduce Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults: A Pilot Study.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingTrial
- Guideline-Directed Heart Failure Pharmacotherapy in Adults Aged ≥75 Years: Evidence Gaps, Tolerability, and Implications for Clinical Practice.Drugs & aging · 2026Review
- Mapping interventions addressing frailty and associated outcomes in people with heart failure: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2026Article
- The effect of digital health interventions in older adults with frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026Review
- Application of Digital Health Technologies in Cardiac Rehabilitation for Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Multi Perspective Considerations for Health Smart Home: Early Phase Exploratory Study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- The mediating pathways of frailty on healthcare costs and length of stay in older patients with colorectal cancer: a multicenter retrospective study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Integrating digital health and remote monitoring: emerging trends in cardiac rehabilitation research for chronic heart failure.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Barriers and Facilitators in Secondary Stroke Prevention Among Older Adults: An International Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Non-Invasive Remote Monitoring in Heart Failure: Towards Wearable Devices and Artificial Intelligence Solutions : Short Title: Remote Monitoring and Wearable Devices in Heart Failure.Current heart failure reports · 2025Review
- Frailty in Cancer: Why Bother and Ways Forward.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2025Article
- Interpretation of Health-Smart Home Data and Implications for Clinical Decision-Making: Inductive Content Analysis.JMIR nursing · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of digital healthcare to improve clinical outcomes in discharged patients with coronary artery disease.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Smartwatches in the assessment of heart failure patients in epidemiology and pathophysiology studies: A scoping review.ESC heart failure · 2025Article
- Perception and Evaluation of a Knowledge Transfer Concept in a Digital Health Application for Patients With Heart Failure: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR human factors · 2025Article
- Investigating frailty and quality of life in patients with heart failure and CKD (FRAIL study).ESC heart failure · 2025Article
- Digital health tools applications in frail older adults-a review article.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Review
- Health behavior and disease self-management indicators in patients with cardiovascular diseases using a health app: Findings from an RCT.AIMS public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Digital health technology is receiving increasing attention in cardiology. The rise of accessibility of digital health tools including wearable technologies and smart phone applications used in medical practice has created a new era in healthcare. The coronavirus pandemic has provided a new impetus for changes in delivering medical assistance across the world. This Consensus document discusses the potential implementation of digital health technology in older adults, suggesting a practical approach to general cardiologists working in an ambulatory outpatient clinic, highlighting the potential benefit and challenges of digital health in older patients with, or at risk of, cardiovascular disease. Advancing age may lead to a progressive loss of independence, to frailty, and to increasing degrees of disability. In geriatric cardiology, digital health technology may serve as an additional tool both in cardiovascular prevention and treatment that may help by (i) supporting self-caring patients with cardiovascular disease to maintain their independence and improve the management of their cardiovascular disease and (ii) improving the prevention, detection, and management of frailty and supporting collaboration with caregivers. Digital health technology has the potential to be useful for every field of cardiology, but notably in an office-based setting with frequent contact with ambulatory older adults who may be pre-frail or frail but who are still able to live at home. Cardiologists and other healthcare professionals should increase their digital health skills and learn how best to apply and integrate new technologies into daily practice and how to engage older people and their caregivers in a tailored programme of care.
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