TY - JOUR
T1 - Patient compliance in home-based self-care telehealth projects
AU - Maeder, Anthony
AU - Poultney, Nathan
AU - Morgan, Gary
AU - Lippiatt, Robert
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper presents the findings of a literature review on patient compliance in home-based self-care telehealth monitoring situations, intended to establish a knowledge base for this aspect which is often neglected alongside more conventional clinical, economic and service evaluations. A systematic search strategy led to 72 peer-reviewed published scientific papers being selected as most relevant to the topic, 58 of which appeared in the last 10 years. Patient conditions in which most evidence for compliance was found were blood pressure, heart failure and stroke, diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other respiratory diseases. In general, good compliance at the start of a study was found to drop off over time, most rapidly in the period immediately after the start. Success factors identified in the study included the extent of patient health education, telehealth system implementation style, user training and competence in system usage, active human support from the healthcare provider and maintaining strong participant motivation.
AB - This paper presents the findings of a literature review on patient compliance in home-based self-care telehealth monitoring situations, intended to establish a knowledge base for this aspect which is often neglected alongside more conventional clinical, economic and service evaluations. A systematic search strategy led to 72 peer-reviewed published scientific papers being selected as most relevant to the topic, 58 of which appeared in the last 10 years. Patient conditions in which most evidence for compliance was found were blood pressure, heart failure and stroke, diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other respiratory diseases. In general, good compliance at the start of a study was found to drop off over time, most rapidly in the period immediately after the start. Success factors identified in the study included the extent of patient health education, telehealth system implementation style, user training and competence in system usage, active human support from the healthcare provider and maintaining strong participant motivation.
KW - self, care_health
KW - telecommunication in medicine
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:32787
U2 - 10.1177/1357633X15612382
DO - 10.1177/1357633X15612382
M3 - Article
SN - 1758-1109
SN - 1357-633X
VL - 21
SP - 439
EP - 442
JO - Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
JF - Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
IS - 8
ER -