TKI-LSH 2019B015 CaRe-ON: CardiOvascular Research Opting for New Applications: continuous cardiac risk and lifestyle profiling
Duration
April 2020 - February 2024Project Manager
Despite their undisputed relevance, lifestyle data are currently not objectively monitored and therefore not used to the advantage of patients in daily practice. We postulate that more insight in the patients鈥� daily functioning and behavior provides crucial information that can be used to personalize and improve treatment decisions and lifestyle interventions leading to improvements of in-hospital and long-term clinical course, as well as health status, self-motivation and quality of life. We will develop innovative methods and an infrastructure for unobtrusive continuous monitoring of lifestyle behaviors and psychological wellbeing in patients selected for CABG, RFCA and mitral valve surgery. These large patient groups are selected because treatment decisions for these groups can be complex, and technically and medically successful treatments do not necessarily result in desired patient outcomes, such as long-term benefits and improved quality of life.
The results of this project will set the stage for (1) improved and personalized decision making, (2) durable optimization of modifiable risk factors and, (3) improved long-term patient relevant outcomes such as quality of life and healthy living.