Self-Care Monitoring of Heart Failure Symptoms and Lung Impedance at Home Following Hospital Discharge: Longitudinal Study

Ina Thon Aamodt   ^{1, 2} , RN, MNSc ;   Edita Lycholip   ^{3, 4} , RN, PhD ;   Jelena Celutkiene   ^{3, 4} , MD, PhD ;   Thomas von Lueder   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Dan Atar   ^{6, 7} , MD, PhD ;   Ragnhild Sørum Falk   ⁸ , PhD ;   Ragnhild Hellesø   ² , RN, PhD ;   Tiny Jaarsma   ⁹ , RN, PhD ;   Anna Strömberg   ^{10, 11 *} , RN, PhD ;   Irene Lie   ^{1 *} , RN, PhD

¹ Centre for Patient-Centered Heart and Lung Research, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

² Department of Nursing Science, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

³ Clinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

⁴ Center of Cardiology and Angiology, Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania

⁵ Department of Cardiology B, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

⁶ Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

⁷ Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

⁸ Research Support Services, Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

⁹ Division of Nursing, Department of Social and Welfare studies, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden

¹⁰ Division of Nursing, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

¹¹ Department of Cardiology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

*these authors contributed equally