Do Self-Management Interventions Work in Patients With Heart Failure? An Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Self-management interventions are widely implemented in the care for patients with heart failure (HF). However, trials show inconsistent results, and whether specific patient groups respond differently is unknown. This individual patient data meta-analysis assessed the effectiveness of self-management interventions in patients with HF and whether subgroups of patients respond differently.

Methods and results

A systematic literature search identified randomized trials of self-management interventions. Data from 20 studies, representing 5624 patients, were included and analyzed with the use of mixed-effects models and Cox proportional-hazard models, including interaction terms. Self-management interventions reduced the risk of time to the combined end point of HF-re

SUBMITTER: Jonkman NH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5180429 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature