Telemonitoring in Patients with Heart Failure

Small studies suggest that telemonitoring may improve heart-failure outcomes, but its effect in a large trial has not been established.We randomly assigned 1653 patients who had recently been hospitalized for heart failure to undergo either telemonitoring (826 patients) or usual care (827 patients). Telemonitoring was accomplished by means of a telephone-based interactive voice-response system that collected daily information about symptoms and...