Telemedical Interventional Monitoring in Heart Failure (TIM-HF), a randomized, controlled intervention trial investigating the impact of telemedicine on mortality in ambulatory patients with heart failure: study design.

F, Koehler; S, Winkler; M, Schieber; U, Sechtem; K, Stangl; M, Böhm; H, Boll; SS, Kim; K, Koehler; S, Lücke; M, Honold; P, Heinze; T, Schweizer; M, Braecklein; BA, Kirwan; G, Gelbrich; SD, Anker

doi:10.1093/eurjhf/hfq199

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Telemedical Interventional Monitoring in Heart Failure (TIM-HF), a randomized, controlled intervention trial investigating the impact of telemedicine on mortality in ambulatory patients with heart failure: study design.

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Koehler F

Winkler S

Schieber M

Abstract

Aims Remote patient management (telemonitoring) may help to detect early signs of cardiac decompensation, allowing optimization of and adherence to treatments in chronic heart failure (CHF). Two meta-analyses have suggested that telemedicine in CHF can reduce mortality by 30-35%. The aim of the TIM-...

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