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Telephone support to rural and remote patients with heart failure: the Chronic Heart Failure Assessment by Telephone (CHAT) study

  • Henry Krum
  • , Andrew Benjamin Forbes
  • , Julie Jane Yallop
  • , Andrea Driscoll
  • , Joanne Lynn Croucher
  • , Bianca Gar Yee Chan
  • , Robyn Clark
  • , Patricia Davidson
  • , Luan Huynh
  • , Edward K Kasper
  • , David Hunt
  • , Helen Egan
  • , Simon Stewart
  • , Leon Piterman
  • , Andrew Maxwell Tonkin

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Abstract

Although no difference was observed in the primary end-point of CHAT (Packer composite score), UC+I significantly reduced the number of HF patients hospitalised amongst a rural and remote cohort. These data suggest that telephone support may be an efficacious approach to improve clinical outcomes in rural and remote HF patients.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)230 - 237
Number of pages8
JournalCardiovascular Therapeutics
Volume31
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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