title: Do telemonitoring projects of heart failure fit the Chronic Care Model?
abstract: This study describes the characteristics of extramural and transmural telemonitoring projects on chronic heart failure in Belgium. It describes to what extent these telemonitoring projects coincide with the Chronic Care Model of Wagner.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The Chronic Care Model describes essential components for high-quality health care. Telemonitoring can be used to optimise home care for chronic heart failure. It provides a potential prospective to change the current care organisation.
  
  
  METHODS
  This qualitative study describes seven non-invasive home-care telemonitoring projects in patients with heart failure in Belgium. A qualitative design, including interviews and literature review, was used to describe the correspondence of these home-care telemonitoring projects with the dimensions of the Chronic Care Model.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The projects were situated in primary and secondary health care. Their primary goal was to reduce the number of readmissions for chronic heart failure. None of these projects succeeded in a final implementation of telemonitoring in home care after the pilot phase. Not all the projects were initiated to accomplish all of the dimensions of the Chronic Care Model. A central role for the patient was sparse.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Limited financial resources hampered continuation after the pilot phase. Cooperation and coordination in telemonitoring appears to be major barriers but are, within primary care as well as between the lines of care, important links in follow-up. This discrepancy can be prohibitive for deployment of good chronic care. Chronic Care Model is recommended as basis for future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health and Wellbeing, Thomas More University College, Turnhout, Belgium.
authors.forename: Evi
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Willemse
authors.affiliation: Department of Health and Wellbeing, Thomas More University College, Turnhout, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Adriaenssens
authors.affiliation: Department of Health and Wellbeing, Thomas More University College, Lier, Belgium.
authors.forename: Tinne
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dilles
authors.affiliation: Department of Primary and Interdisciplinary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Centre for General Practice, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: Roy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Remmen
keywords: chronic care model; heart failure; nursing evaluation research; patient-centred care; primary health care; telemedicine
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