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Implant-based multiparameter telemonitoring of patients with heart failure (IN-TIME): a randomised controlled trial

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: The Lancet

Source URL: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2961176-4/ab…

Author(s)

Gerhard Hindricks, Milos Taborsky, Michael Glikson, Ullus Heinrich, Burghard Schumacher, Amos Katz, Johannes Brachmann, Thorsten Lewalter, Andreas Goette, Michael Block, Josef Kautzner, Stefan Sack, Daniela Husser, Christopher Piorkowski, Peter Søgaard, for the IN-TIME study group

In this multi-institution randomized trial, patients with heart failure underwent daily telemonitoring and standard care or just standard care. At 1 year, fewer patients in the telemonitoring group had worsened composite score (19% vs 27%) and experienced fewer deaths (10 vs 27 pts).