Heart failure & cardiomyopathiesRandomised controlled trial
Digital consults in heart failure care: a randomized controlled trial
- Randomised controlled trial
- multicentre
- open-label
- investigator-initiated
Authors' conclusion
To our knowledge, this is the first multicenter randomized controlled trial that proves a DC strategy is effective to achieve GDMT optimization.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF)
- Participants
- 150 patients
- Comparison
- Digital consults vs usual care
- Primary endpoint
- Change in guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) score (ΔGDMT)
- Follow-up
- 12 weeks
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
P < 0.001
Original publication
Digital consults in heart failure care: a randomized controlled trial. Nat Med. Published 31 August 2024. doi:10.1038/s41591-024-03238-6
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it