Telemedicine in Heart Failure During COVID-19: A Step Into the Future
Why the study?
COVID-19 lockdowns endangered regular follow-up and direct assessment for high-risk heart failure patients, creating a need to evaluate telemedicine strategies to maintain continuity of care.
Population
Patients with heart failure during COVID-19
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May support care continuity for heart failure during pandemics; leaves open optimal modality selection and prospective validation.
Structured PICO
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Population
Patients with heart failure during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Intervention
Telemedicine strategies (dedicated apps, telephone calls, devices, virtual visits, forward triage, remote communication platforms, remote follow-up, telerehabilitation)
Telemedicine strategies offer a viable solution to ensure continuity of care for heart failure patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, mitigating the risks of lockdown-induced care disruptions.
Cite This Study
Tersalvi et al. (2020) studied this question.