title: Telehealth for chronic disease management: do we need to RE-AIM?
abstract: An increasing number of individuals are living with long term health conditions which they manage most of the time by themselves. This paper evaluates the use of information and communications technology platforms to provide evidence-based programs to help people with chronic disease to self-management these. It describes two different self-management strategies for chronic conditions, and the evaluation of their implementation in clinical trials, specifically in terms of reach, implementation fidelity, adoption and user perceptions. It also discusses the challenges in replicating trial findings in the real world, using the RE-AIM framework.
authors.affiliation: The Australian e-Health Research Centre, Digital Productivity and Services Flagship, CSIRO, Herston, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Marlien
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Varnfield
authors.affiliation: The Australian e-Health Research Centre, Digital Productivity and Services Flagship, CSIRO, Herston, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Mohan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karunanithi
authors.affiliation: The Australian e-Health Research Centre, Digital Productivity and Services Flagship, CSIRO, Herston, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Hang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bird
authors.affiliation: Academic Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Oldenburg
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D012648:Self Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016896:Treatment Outcome