Trial reportEuropean heart journal2014
Quarterly vs. yearly clinical follow-up of remotely monitored recipients of prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: results of the REFORM trial.
Trial report in European heart journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00401466 (Remote Follow-up for ICD-Therapy in Patients Meeting MADIT II Criteria), which is not on this map. Cited by 41 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Remote Follow-up for ICD-Therapy in Patients Meeting MADIT II Criteria (REFORM)
Who cites it
41 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Knowledge Update on the Economic Evaluation of Pacemaker Telemonitoring Systems.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Daily remote monitoring of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: insights from the pooled patient-level data from three randomized controlled trials (IN-TIME, ECOST, TRUST).European heart journal · 2017Pooled it
- Informational letters or postcards to initiate remote monitoring among veterans with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: A randomized, controlled trial.Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE · 2024Trial
- The INFluence of Remote monitoring on Anxiety/depRession, quality of lifE, and Device acceptance in ICD patients: a prospective, randomized, controlled, single-center trial.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2021Trial
- Safety and efficiency of a common and simplified protocol for pacemaker and defibrillator surveillance based on remote monitoring only: a long-term randomized trial (RM-ALONE).European heart journal · 2019Trial
- Remote monitoring and clinical outcomes: details on information flow and workflow in the IN-TIME study.European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes · 2019Trial
- Prospective evaluation of integrated device diagnostics for heart failure management: results of the TRIAGE-HF study.ESC heart failure · 2018Trial
- Home monitoring of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: interpretation reliability of the second-generation "IEGM Online" system.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2015Trial
- Superiority of automatic remote monitoring compared with in-person evaluation for scheduled ICD follow-up in the TRUST trial - testing execution of the recommendations.European heart journal · 2014Trial
- A systematic review of the impacts of remote patient monitoring (RPM) interventions on safety, adherence, quality-of-life and cost-related outcomes.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Review
- The digital journey: 25 years of digital development in electrophysiology from an Europace perspective.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2023Review
- Remote monitoring of cardiac implantable electronic devices and disease management.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2023Article
- 2023 HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS Expert Consensus Statement on Practical Management of the Remote Device Clinic.Journal of arrhythmia · 2023Article
- 2023 HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS Expert Consensus Statement on Practical Management of the Remote Device Clinic.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2023Article
- Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices Enabled Remote Heart Failure Monitoring; What We Have Learned and Where to Go Next.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2023Review
- Remote Patient Monitoring: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?Current cardiovascular risk reports · 2023Review
- Ventricular arrhythmia burden in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator and remote patient monitoring during different time intervals of the COVID-19 pandemic.European journal of medical research · 2022Article
- Big Data in electrophysiology.Herzschrittmachertherapie & Elektrophysiologie · 2022Review
- Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Cardiac Electronic Device Management and Role of Remote Monitoring.Cardiac electrophysiology clinics · 2022Review
- Performance of first pacemaker to use smart device app for remote monitoring.Heart rhythm O2 · 2021Article
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Abstract
aimsThe rapidly increasing number of patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) places a large burden on follow-up providers. This study investigated the possibility of longer in-office follow-up intervals in primary prevention ICD patients under remote monitoring with automatic daily data transmissions from the implant memory. METHODS AND
resultsConducted in 155 ICD recipients with MADIT II indications, the study compared the burden of scheduled and unscheduled ICD follow-up visits, quality of life (SF-36), and clinical outcomes in patients randomized to either 3- or 12-month follow-up intervals in the period between 3 and 27 months after implantation. Remote monitoring (Biotronik Home Monitoring) was used equally in all patients. In contrast to previous clinical studies, no calendar-based remote data checks were performed between scheduled in-office visits. Compared with the 3-month follow-up interval, the 12-month interval resulted in a minor increase in the number of unscheduled follow-ups (0.64 vs. 0.27 per patient-year; P = 0.03) and in a major reduction in the total number of in-office ICD follow-ups (1.60 vs. 3.85 per patient-year; P < 0.001). No significant difference was found in mortality, hospitalization rate, or hospitalization length during the 2-year observation period, but more patients were lost to follow-up in the 12-month group (10 vs. 3; P = 0.04). The SF-36 scores favoured the 12-month intervals in the domains 'social functioning' and 'mental health'.
conclusionIn prophylactic ICD recipients under automatic daily remote monitoring, the extension of the 3-month in-office follow-up interval to 12 months appeared to safely reduce the ICD follow-up burden during 27 months after implantation. CLINICALTRIALSGOV IDENTIFIER: NCT00401466 (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00401466).
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