Improvement in Quality of Life With the Use of a Technological System Among Patients With Chronic Disease Followed Up in Primary Care (TeNDER Project): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Cristina María Lozano Hernández   ^{1, 2, 3} , MSc ;   Rodrigo Medina-García   ^{1, 2, 3, 4} , MD ;   Mª Canto de Hoyos-Alonso   ^{3, 5 *} , PhD ;   Araceli Garrido-Barral   ^{6 *} , MD ;   César Minué Lorenzo   ^{3, 7 *} , PhD ;   Teresa Sanz-Cuesta   ^{1, 3 *} , PhD ;   Javier Serrano   ^{8 *} , PhD ;   Alberto del Rio Ponce   ^{8 *} , MSc ;   Tomas Gómez-Gascón   ^{2, 3 *} , PhD ;   Isabel del Cura-González   ^{1, 3, 9} , PhD ;   TeNDER Group Primary Care   ¹⁰

¹ Research Unit, Primary Health Care Management, Madrid, Spain

² Biosanitary Research and Innovation Foundation of Primary Care, Madrid, Spain

³ Research Network on Chronicity, Primary Care and Health Promotion, Madrid, Spain

⁴ Primary Health Care Management, General Ricardos Primary Health Care Centre, Madrid, Spain

⁵ Primary Health Care Management, Lain Entralgo Primary Health Care Centre, Madrid, Spain

⁶ Primary Health Care Management, Barrio del Pilar Primary Health Care Centre, Madrid, Spain

⁷ Primary Health Care Management, Perales del Río Primary Health Care Centre, Madrid, Spain

⁸ Visual Telecommunications Application Research Group, Signals, Systems and Radiocommunications Department, Universidad Politécnica, Madrid, Spain

⁹ Department of Medical Specialties and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain

¹⁰ See Acknowledgments, Madrid, Spain

*these authors contributed equally