Cost-effectiveness of telehealthcare to patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results from the Danish 'TeleCare North' cluster-randomised trial.

Objectives: To investigate the cost-effectiveness of a telehealthcare solution in addition to usual care compared with usual care.

Design: A 12-month cost-utility analysis conducted alongside a cluster-randomised trial.

Setting: Community-based setting in the geographical area of North Denmark Region in Denmark.

Telehealthcare for patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: effects on health-related quality of life: results from the Danish 'TeleCare North' cluster-randomised trial.

Objective: To assess the effect of telehealthcare compared with usual practice in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Design: A cluster-randomised trial with 26 municipal districts that were randomly assigned either to an intervention group whose members received telehealthcare in addition to usual practice or to a control group whose members received usual practice only (13 districts in each arm).

Setting: Twenty-six municipal districts in the North Denmark Region of Denmark.

An Iterative, Mixed Usability Approach Applied to the Telekit System from the Danish TeleCare North Trial.

. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the usability of the telehealth system, coined Telekit, by using an iterative, mixed usability approach. .

Specific technological communication skills and functional health literacy have no influence on self-reported benefits from enrollment in the TeleCare North trial.

Purpose: The Danish TeleCare North trial has developed a telehealth system, Telekit, which is used for self-management by patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Self-management is the engagement in one's own illness and health by monitoring and managing one's symptoms and signs of illness. The study examines the association between COPD patients' use of Telekit and their functional health literacy and the association between their use of Telekit and their specific technological communication skills.

Exploring User Experience of a Telehealth System for the Danish TeleCare North Trial.

The aim was to explore user experiences of using a telehealth system (Telekit) designed for the Danish TeleCare North trial. Telekit is designed for patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in order to manage the disease and support patient empowerment. This article sums up COPD-participants' user experiences in terms of increased sense of freedom, of security, of control, and greater awareness of COPD symptoms.

Heuristic evaluation of a telehealth system from the Danish TeleCare North Trial.

Objective: The aim was to evaluate the usability of the design of the telehealth system, named Telekit, developed for the Danish TeleCare North Trial, early into the design process in order to assess potential problems and limitations which could hinder its successful implementation.

Methods: Five experts, including one who pilot-tested the Telekit system, individually evaluated its usability and its compliance with Jakob Nielsen's ten usability heuristics for interaction design. Usability problems were categorised according to Rolf Molich's severity classification.

User satisfaction and experience with a telehealth system for the Danish TeleCare North Trial: a think-aloud study.

The aim was to evaluate a redesigned version of Telekit--a telehealth system developed for the Danish TeleCare North Trial. Telekit is used in the management of care in patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This paper summarises the experience and the feedback received from six COPD-participants in terms of usability and satisfaction.

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of telehealthcare for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.

Background: Several feasibility studies show promising results of telehealthcare on health outcomes and health-related quality of life for patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and some of these studies show that telehealthcare may even lower healthcare costs. However, the only large-scale trial we have so far - the Whole System Demonstrator Project in England - has raised doubts about these results since it conclude that telehealthcare as a supplement to usual care is not likely to be cost-effective compared with usual care alone.

Methods/design: The present study is known as 'TeleCare North' in Denmark.

Patient support ICT tool for hypertension monitoring.

Detection of hypertension is traditionally a matter for the general practitioner, but an alternative detection scheme is home blood pressure measurement by patients, on patients' or doctors' decision. We designed and implemented a prototype software tool to provide information about hypertension, video instructions on correct home blood pressure measurement technique and a measurements diary. The system was developed using standard, software development methods and techniques.

A pilot assessment of why patients choose not to participate in self-monitoring oral anticoagulant therapy.

Patients suffering from heart diseases often face lifelong oral anticoagulant therapy. Traditionally, the patient's general practitioner takes care of the treatment. An alternative management scheme is a self-monitoring setup where the patient monitors and manages the oral treatment himself.