Table 2 Secondary outcomes: Number and duration of hospitalisations for specific main diagnoses of the telehealth intervention (TH) and usual care control (UC) group.
From: Combined telemonitoring and telecoaching for heart failure improves outcome
Intention-to-treat-analysis | On-treatment-analysis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Telehealth group | Usual-care group | p-value | Telehealth group | Usual-care group | p-value | |
Number of patients | 6065 | 6065 | – | 6065 | 6065 | – |
Days alive out of hospital (%) | 90.7% | 86.3% | <0.001 | |||
Hospitalisations (per 100 patient years) | ||||||
- All-cause | 129.6 (125.3–133.9) | 133.2 (128.8–137.8) | 0.015 | 125.7 (121.4–130.1) | 133.6 (129.0–138.3) | 0.012 |
- Cardiovascular | 47.4 (45.1–49.7) | 48.3 (46.0–50.6) | 0.164 | 46.2 (43.9–48.6) | 47.8 (45.4–50.3) | 0.213 |
- Heart failure | 17.9 (16.5–19.3) | 21.8 (20.2–23.3) | <0.001 | 16.7 (15.3–18.0) | 21.3 (19.8–22.9) | <0.001 |
Days in hospital (per year) | ||||||
- All-cause | 12.0 (11.5–12.5) | 13.4 (12.8–13.9) | <0.001 | 11.4 (10.9–11.9) | 13.3 (12.7–13.9) | <0.001 |
- Cardiovascular | 4.3 (4.1–4.6) | 4.9 (4.6–5.2) | <0.001 | 4.1 (3.9–4.4) | 4.8 (4.5–5.1) | <0.001 |
- Heart failure | 2.0 (1.8–2.1) | 2.6 (2.4–2.8) | <0.001 | 1.8 (1.6–2.0) | 2.5 (2.3–2.7) | <0.001 |
