Feasibility and Clinical Relevance of a Mobile Intervention Using TrackPAD to Support Supervised Exercise Therapy in Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial

Katrin Paldán   ^{1, 2} , MSc, DPhil ;   Jan Simanovski   ¹ ;   Greta Ullrich   ³ ;   Martin Steinmetz   ³ , MD, Dr Med ;   Christos Rammos   ³ , PD, MD, Dr Med ;   Rolf Alexander Jánosi   ³ , PD, MD, Dr Med ;   Susanne Moebus   ¹ , Prof Dr, PhD ;   Tienush Rassaf   ³ , MD, Prof Dr ;   Julia Lortz   ³ , MD, Dr Med

¹ Centre for Urban Epidemiology, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry und Epidemiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

² Centre of Competence Personal Analytics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

³ Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, West-German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany