Why the study?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, heart failure epidemiology changed with reduced access to healthcare and worse patient outcomes, highlighting the need to refine heart failure management during and after the pandemic.
Does telemedicine improve outcomes in patients with heart failure?
Does telemedicine improve outcomes in patients with heart failure?
Telemedicine may help refine out-of-hospital care and optimize home-based or outpatient heart failure management beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
May support telemedicine for heart failure management; leaves open confirmation in randomized trials.
During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the epidemiology of heart failure significantly changed with reduced access to health system resources and a worsening of patients' outcome. Understanding the causes of these phenomena could be important to refine the management of heart failure during and after the pandemic. Telemedicine was associated with an improvement in heart failure outcomes in several studies; therefore, it may help in refining the out-of-hospital care of heart failure. In this review, the authors describe the changes in heart failure epidemiology during the COVID-19 pandemic; analyse available evidence on use and benefit of telemedicine during the pandemic and prepandemic periods; and discuss approaches to optimize the home-based or outpatient heart failure management in the future, beyond the pandemic.
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