Multifaceted Strategy Based on Automated Text Messaging After a Recent Heart Failure Admission: The MESSAGE-HF Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Readmissions after an index heart failure (HF) hospitalization are a major contemporary health care problem.

Objective

To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of an intensive telemonitoring strategy in the vulnerable period after an HF hospitalization.

Design, setting, and participants

This randomized clinical trial was conducted in 30 HF clinics in Brazil. Patients with left ventricular ejection fraction less than 40% and access to mobile phones were enrolled up to 30 days after an HF admission. Data were collected from July 2019 to July 2022.

Intervention

Participants were randomly assigned to a telemonitoring strategy or standard care. The telemonitoring group received 4 daily short message service text messages to optimize self-care, active enga

SUBMITTER: Rohde LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10701668 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature