Heart conditions
Telecardiology for patients with chronic heart failure: the ‘SHL’ experience in Israel
| Partners/ Authors | Arie Roth, Irena Kajiloti, Ilana Elkayam, Judith Sander, Mayera Kehati, Michal Golovner |
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| Start & end date | 2004 |
| Focus | Patients with chronic heart failure characteristically have multiple hospital admissions for symptom control, deleteriously affecting their quality of life and imposing a burden on national healthcare costs. We assessed the effect of a novel transtelephonic monitoring and follow-up program on the admission rate and length of hospital stay as well as changes in their subjectively rated quality of life of patients with chronic heart failure. |
| Outcome | The study cohort included 118 patients, mean age 75 years (range 49-89 years), 65% males, a II-IV class functional capacity and a 25% (range 10-39%) mean ejection fraction. There was a 66% reduction in the total hospitalization days (from 1623 in the year preceding study entry to 558 during the study period, p<0.0001). Although only 38/118 patients were hospitalized, most participants reported a significant subjective improvement in their quality of life. |
| Website | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15336806/ |