Effectiveness of Remote Patient Monitoring After Discharge of Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure: The Better Effectiveness After Transition -- Heart Failure (BEAT-HF) Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

It remains unclear whether telemonitoring approaches provide benefits for patients with heart failure (HF) after hospitalization.

Objective

To evaluate the effectiveness of a care transition intervention using remote patient monitoring in reducing 180-day all-cause readmissions among a broad population of older adults hospitalized with HF.

Design, setting, and participants

We randomized 1437 patients hospitalized for HF between October 12, 2011, and September 30, 2013, to the intervention arm (715 patients) or to the usual care arm (722 patients) of the Better Effectiveness After Transition-Heart Failure (BEAT-HF) study and observed them for 180 days. The dates of our study analysis were March 30, 2014, to October 1, 2015. The setting was 6 academic medical

SUBMITTER: Ong MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4827701 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature