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Table 5 Summary of all-cause mortality

From: Telemonitoring can assist in managing cardiovascular disease in primary care: a systematic review of systematic reviews

Reference

Intervention

Results

Chaudhry et al. [21]

Automated monitoring of signs & symptoms

56% reduced mortality (1 study)

  

95% CI 0.22-0.85

Clark et al. [10]

Telemonitoring – 4 studies

20% reduction in all-cause mortality (RR 0.80, 95% CI: 0.69 to 0.92; 14 studies)

 

Structured telephone support – 9 studies

Decrease in all-cause mortality more pronounced with telemonitoring (RR 0.62, 95% CI: 0.45 to 0.85; 4 studies) than with structured telephone support (RR 0.85, 95% CI: 0.72 to 1.01; 9 studies)

 

Telemonitoring and structured telephone support – 1 study

 

Giamouzis et al. [22]

Telemonitoring

Statistically significant reduced all-cause mortality (3 studies).

Inglis et al. [8]

Telemonitoring (transfer of daily data) – 11 studies

Telemonitoring reduced all-cause mortality (RR 0.66, 95% CI: 0.54–0.81; 11 studies)

 

Structured Telephone support – 16 studies

Structured telephone support showed a non-significant trend towards reduced all-cause mortality (RR 0.88 95% CI: 0.76– 1.01; 15 studies)