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  • Gund, Anna,1980Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology (author)

Attitudes among healthcare professionals towards ICT and home follow-up in chronic heart failure care

  • Article/chapterEnglish2012

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  • 2012-11-28
  • Springer Science and Business Media LLC,2012
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  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:kth-117680
  • https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-117680URI
  • https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-12-138DOI
  • https://research.chalmers.se/publication/168206URI
  • https://gup.ub.gu.se/publication/168206URI
  • http://kipublications.ki.se/Default.aspx?queryparsed=id:125893968URI

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  • Language:English
  • Summary in:English

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  • QC 20130201
  • Background: eHealth applications for out-of-hospital monitoring and treatment follow-up have been advocated for many years as a promising tool to improve treatment compliance, promote individualized care and obtain a person-centred care. Despite these benefits and a large number of promising projects, a major breakthrough in everyday care is generally still lacking. Inappropriate organization for eHealth technology, reluctance from users in the introduction of new working methods, and resistance to information and communication technology (ICT) in general could be reasons for this. Another reason may be attitudes towards the potential in out-of-hospital eHealth applications. It is therefore of interest to study the general opinions among healthcare professionals to ICT in healthcare, as well as the attitudes towards using ICT as a tool for patient monitoring and follow-up at home. One specific area of interest is in-home follow-up of elderly patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). The aim of this paper is to investigate the attitudes towards ICT, as well as distance monitoring and follow-up, among healthcare professionals working with this patient group. Method: This paper covers an attitude survey study based on responses from 139 healthcare professionals working with CHF care in Swedish hospital departments, i.e. cardiology and medicine departments. Comparisons between physicians and nurses, and in some cases between genders, on attitudes towards ICT tools and follow-up at home were performed. Results: Out of the 425 forms sent out, 139 were collected, and 17 out of 21 counties and regions were covered in the replies. Among the respondents, 66% were nurses, 30% physicians and 4% others. As for gender, 90% of nurses were female and 60% of physicians were male. Internet was used daily by 67% of the respondents. Attitudes towards healthcare ICT were found positive as 74% were positive concerning healthcare ICT today, 96% were positive regarding the future of healthcare ICT, and 54% had high confidence in healthcare ICT. Possibilities for distance monitoring/follow-up are good according to 63% of the respondents, 78% thought that this leads to increased patient involvement, and 80% thought it would improve possibilities to deliver better care. Finally, 72% of the respondents said CHF patients would benefit from home monitoring/follow-up to some extent, and 19% to a large extent. However, the best method of follow-up was considered to be home visits by nurse, or phone contact. Conclusion: The results indicate that a majority of the healthcare professionals in this study are positive to both current and future use of ICT tools in healthcare and home follow-up. Consequently other factors have to play an important role in the slow penetration of out-of-hospital eHealth applications in daily healthcare practice.

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  • Lindecrantz, KajKarolinska Institutet,KTH,Medicinska sensorer, signaler och system (MSSS),Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology(Swepub:gu)xlinka (author)
  • Schaufelberger, Maria,1954Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för medicin, avdelningen för molekylär och klinisk medicin,Institute of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine(Swepub:gu)xscmar (author)
  • Patel, Harshida,1958Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och hälsa,Institute of Health and Care Sciences(Swepub:gu)xpatha (author)
  • Sjöqvist, Bengt-Arne,1952Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology(Swepub:cth)bensjo (author)
  • Chalmers tekniska högskolaMedicinska sensorer, signaler och system (MSSS) (creator_code:org_t)

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  • In:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making: Springer Science and Business Media LLC12:1, s. 138-1472-6947

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