In their article on the Telemonitoring to Improve Heart Failure Outcomes (Tele-HF) trial (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00303212), Chaudhry et al. (Dec. 9 issue) report neutral effectiveness of remote telemonitoring in patients with heart failure, in contrast to the results of a previous meta-analysis. Most studies have focused on patient-reported data. The risk is information overload for and noncompliance by health care professionals. In the present study, 14% of the patients did not use the intervention, and 45% of the patients did not adhere to the intervention.
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Swedberg, Karl; Wolf, Axel; Ekman, Inger, N Engl J Med, 364(11), 1078; author reply 1079-1080, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1100395#SA1
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