%0 Journal Article
%A López-Liria, Remedios
%A López-Villegas, Antonio
%A Leal-Costa, César
%A Peiró, Salvador
%A Robles-Musso, Emilio
%A Bautista-Mesa, Rafael
%A Rocamora-Pérez, Patricia
%A Lappegård, Knut Tore
%A Catalán-Matamoros, Daniel
%T Effectiveness and Safety in Remote Monitoring of Patients with Pacemakers Five Years after an Implant: The Poniente Study.
%D 2020
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/15165
%X Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and functional capacity values immediately after pacemaker (PM) implantation have been well established; however, not much has been known about its long-term effects. The present study compared the long-term effectiveness and safety of remote monitoring plus a clinic visit versus clinic visits alone during follow-up of adults implanted with PMs. This study was a single-centre, controlled, non-randomised, non-blinded clinical trial. Data were collected pre-implantation and after 60 months. The patients in the PONIENTE study were assigned to two different groups: remote monitoring (RM) and conventional monitoring (CM). The EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) questionnaire was used to assess HRQoL and Duke Activity Status Index was used for the functional capacity. After five years, 55 patients completed the study (RM = 21; CM = 34). EuroQol-5D and functional capacity values were improved; however, significant differences were observed only in the EQ5D visual analogue scale (p
%K health-related quality of life
%K long-term follow-up
%K pacemaker
%K remote monitoring
%K telemedicine
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