Randomised trial of telephone intervention in chronic heart failure: DIAL trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether a centralised telephone intervention reduces the incidence of death or admission for worsening heart failure in outpatients with chronic heart failure.

Design

Multicentre randomised controlled trial.

Setting

51 centres in Argentina (public and private hospitals and ambulatory settings).

Participants

1518 outpatients with stable chronic heart failure and optimal drug treatment randomised, stratified by attending cardiologist, to telephone intervention or usual care.

Intervention

Education, counselling, and monitoring by nurses through frequent telephone follow-up in addition to usual care, delivered from a single centre.

Main outcome measure

All cause mortality or admission to hospital for worsening heart failure.

SUBMITTER: GESICA Investigators 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1188105 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature