Disease management with home telemonitoring aimed at substitution of usual care in the Netherlands: Post-hoc analyses of the e-Vita HF study

BACKGROUND: Home telemonitoring in heart failure (HF) patients may reduce workload of HF nurses by reducing face-to-face contacts. The aim of this study is to assess whether telemonitoring as a substitution could have negative effects as expressed by less reduction in circulating natriuretic peptide levels between baseline and one-year of follow up compared to usual care. METHODS: A post-hoc analysis of the e-Vita HF trial, a three-arm parallel randomized trial conducted in stable HF patients. Patients were randomized into three arms: (i) usual HF outpatient care, (ii) usual care combined with... Mehr ...