Does structured telephone support or non-invasive telemonitoring reduce mortality and hospitalizations in patients with heart failure?
Structured telephone support and non-invasive home telemonitoring are effective strategies for reducing mortality and hospitalizations while improving quality of life in patients with heart failure.
For people with heart failure, structured telephone support and non-invasive home telemonitoring reduce the risk of all-cause mortality and heart failure-related hospitalisations; these interventions also demonstrated improvements in health-related quality of life and heart failure knowledge and self-care behaviours. Studies also demonstrated participant satisfaction with the majority of the interventions which assessed this outcome.
Inglis et al. (Sat,) studied this question.