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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 chronic heart failure

Author: Koehler, F. Country/countries: Germany Number of patients participating in the study: 710 This study was focused on patients living with Heart Failure
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Plus Intervention components: UCP
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Setting of implementation: Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Physicians Targeted self-management behaviours: N/A
Intervention analysed in the study: Monitoring techniques Intervention components: E+MT
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Setting of implementation: Home-care Professionals delivering the intervention: Physicians, Service Targeted self-management behaviours: Asking for professional help or emergency care when needed, Communication with healthcare and/or social care providers, Condition-specific behaviours, Device management, Early recognition of symptoms, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Hospital admissions All-cause hospital admissions N/A
Hospital admissions Cardiovascular-related hospital admissions N/A
Hospital admissions HF-related hospital admissions N/A
Mortality All causes of mortality N/A
Mortality Cardiovascular-related mortality N/A
Quality of life Quality of life N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 66.9 years (+/- a standard deviation of 10.65) Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: 26.95 (+/- a standard deviation of 5.8) Multi-morbidity: N/A
  • Number of co-morbidities: N/A

Level of health literacy: N/A
  • Tool: N/A

Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Outcome Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital admissions
Hospital admissions - Cardiovascular-related hospital admissions
Hospital admissions - HF-related hospital admissions
Mortality - All causes of mortality
Mortality - Cardiovascular-related mortality
Quality of life - Quality of life

Other publications associated with this study

Telemedical Interventional Monitoring in Heart Failure (TIM-HF), a randomized, controlled intervention trial investigating the impact of telemedicine on mortality in ambulatory patients with chronic heart failure Link: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfq199. Impact of Remote Telemedical Management on Mortality and Hospitalizations in Ambulatory Patients With Chronic Heart Failure Link: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.018473. Telemedicine in heart failure: Pre-specified and exploratory subgroup analyses from the TIM-HF trial Link: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.09.007.