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Telemonitoring in Chronic Heart Failure: A Systematic Review Table 2 Study characteristics and participants’ data.
Reference Sample size Age† E.F. Follow-up period Transmission modality NYHAa class Study design Place (1) Dendale et al. [21 ] 160 76 ± 10 35 ± 15% 6 m Cell phone >II RCTb 7 hospitals in Belgium (2) Wade et al. [22 ] 316 78.1 Not reported 6 m Internet link Not reported RCTb New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania residents (3) Scherr et al. [23 ] 120 66 (median, IQRc 62–72) <38% 6 m Mobile phone II–IV RCTb Austria (4) Mortara et al. [24 ] 461 60 ± 11 29 ± 7 12 m Telephone line II–IV (
) RCTb 11 centers in Italy, UK, and Poland (5) Dar et al. [25 ] 182 72 (Mean) SDd : 12 Not reported 6 m Telephone line II–IV RCTb 3 acute hospitals in northwest London (6) Antonicelli et al. [26 ] 57 78 (Mean) SDd : 7 12 m Telephone line II–IV RCTb Italy (7) Cleland et al. [27 ] 426 67 (Mean) SDd : 12 <40% 8 m Telephone line I–IV RCTb 16 hospitals in Germany, UK and The Netherlands (8) Giordano et al. [28 ] 460 57 ± 10 <40% 12 m Telephone line II–IV RCTb 5 cardiovascular rehabilitation departments in Italy (9) Goldberg et al. [29 ] 280 59 ± 15 <35% 6 m Telephone line III-IV RCTb 16 heart failure centres in the USA (10) Tompkins and Orwat [30 ] 390 76.1 (SDd : 8.1) Not reported 6 m Telephone line Not reported RCTb Arizona, USA (11) Soran et al. [31 ] 315 76 ± 7 23 ± 9% 6 m Telephone line II-III RCTb 3 cites in Pittsburg, Cleveland, and Miami, USA (12) Koehler et al. [32 ] 710
≤35% 26 m (median) Cell phone II-III RCTb 165 practices in Germany
† Age is reported in years as a mean value unless otherwise stated.a NYHA: New York Heart Association, b RCT: randomized controlled trial, c IQR: interquartile range, d SD: standard deviation.