Telemedical Interventional Monitoring in Heart Failure (TIM-HF), a randomized, controlled intervention trial investigating the impact of telemedicine on mortality in ambulatory patients with heart failure: Study design

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1354-1362

  Koehler, Friedrich ^a   Winkler, Sebastian ^a   Schieber, Michael ^b   Sechtem, Udo ^b   Stangl, Karl ^a   Böhm, Michael ^c   Boll, Herbert ^d   Kim, Simone S ^e   Koehler, Kerstin ^a   Lücke, Stephanie ^a   Honold, Marcus ^b   Heinze, Peter ^f   Schweizer, Thomas ^g   Braecklein, Martin ^d   Kirwan, Bridget Anne ^h   Gelbrich, Goetz ⁱ   Anker, Stefan D ^a,j  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^e BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f InterComponentWare AG   (Germany)

^g Zettl GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

^h SOCAR RESEARCH SA   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^j IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Chronic heart failure; Hospitalization; Intervention trial; Mortality; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TELEMEDICINE;

ALGORITHMS; AMBULATORY CARE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 78649660294     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfq199     Document Type: Article

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