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ArticleTherapeutic advances in cardiovascular disease

The GENICA project - a prospective cohort of heart failure patients with a comprehensive ambulatory approach aiming better outcomes: study protocol.

Carla Sofia de Almeida Martins, João Abranches Figueiredo Simões de Carvalho, Manuel Vaz da Silva, Luís Martins

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Carla Sofia de Almeida MartinsHospital Center of Entre o Douro e Vouga, Rua Dr Candido Pinho, 4520-220 Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-7231-2968
João Abranches Figueiredo Simões de CarvalhoHospital Center of Entre o Douro e Vouga, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.
Manuel Vaz da SilvaFaculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Luís MartinsDepartment of Cardiology, Teaching Hospital of Fernando Pessoa University, Porto, Portugal.
Universidade do Porto · PTFernando Pessoa University · PTUnidade Local de Saúde de Entre Douro e Vouga · PT

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Abstract

introductionHeart failure (HF) is a syndrome increasing worldwide, and literature shows that the hospitalizations are associated with greater mortality rates. A patient-centered method combined with optimized medical treatment and palliative care may improve HF outcomes, and some advocate a multifaceted approach to achieve a perfect management of chronic HF (CHF).

objectiveThe objective of this study was to present the study protocol of GENICA project which aims to optimize the ambulatory approach of CHF patients, and reduce their re-hospitalization, emergency readmission, and global death rate.

designProspective cohort including patients referred to HF consultation and collecting sociodemographic, clinical, and analytical variables among others. The outcomes will be mortality, re-hospitalization, and emergency readmission rates. The association between the independent variables and outcomes will be assessed by logistic regression. Comparison between GENICA patients and controls will be made by χ

resultsGENICA will offer a wide range of longitudinal data with evidence that will influence future healthcare of CHF patients at an ambulatory basis. DISCUSSION: GENICA will provide practical evidence of real HF patient's profile and develop workable decision algorithms, which will influence future ambulatory care of CHF. HF patients will be safer at home and will keep stability for longer periods, consuming less health resources and slow the progression of the disease. Being a matched cohort, GENICA benefits from an accuracy similar to that of randomized controlled trials, without the need to perform a rigorous allocation of the intervention. Being prospective there's no problem about response bias.

conclusionCHF should be approached with a multidisciplinary and multifaceted strategy privileging the outpatient setting, including home monitoring, and GENICA is the paramount protocol enabling this. GENICA may come to show health policy makers that the asset is not to divide and rule, but to converge strategies, therapies, and knowledge.

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Heart FailureTelemedicineHospitalizationHumansPatient ReadmissionProspective Studiesambulatory careheart failuremonitoring devicesnoninvasive monitoringtelemedicinetelemonitoring

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