Summary of findings ‐ structured telephone support or telemonitoring vs usual care: Death (all causes)
Summary of findings ‐ structured telephone support or telemonitoring probably leads to lower all‐cause mortality: Telemonitoring versus usual care compared with usual care ‐ all‐cause mortality (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Summary of findings ‐ structured telephone support or telemonitoring vs usual care ‐ all‐cause mortality All‐cause mortality: Telemonitoring versus usual care · people with heart failure Summary of findings ‐ structured telephone support or telemonitoring probably leads to lower all‐cause mortality: Telemonitoring versus usual care compared with usual care ‐ all‐cause mortality (moderate certainty). Structured telephone support or non‐invasive telemonitoring for patients with heart failure (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.8 [0.68, 0.94] | 17 studies · 3740 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Structured telephone support or non‐invasive telemonitoring for patients with heart failure 2015 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.