Observational studyCirculation. Heart failure2021
Practice Patterns and Patient Outcomes After Widespread Adoption of Remote Heart Failure Care.
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- Changes in Clinician Telemedicine Use and Care Patterns for Patients With Heart Failure in the United States.Circulation. Population health and outcomes · 2026Article
- Impact of Initial Cardiology Telemedicine Evaluation on Follow-Up Visits for Common Conditions: Quasi-Experimental Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Outpatient care changes and associated mortality among Veterans with heart failure during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2025Article
- Telemedicine Use Among Older Adults During COVID-19: A Narrative Literature Review of Utilization Patterns.Telemedicine reports · 2025Review
- Patterns of Telehealth Visits After the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Individuals With or at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease in the United States.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Telemedicine Disparities in Ambulatory Cardiology Visits in a Large Academic Health System.JACC. Advances · 2024Article
- Evaluation of Telemedicine Consultations Using Health Outcomes and User Attitudes and Experiences: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Heart Failure-From Physical Activity to Electrical Therapies: A Literature Review.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2024Review
- Digital Solutions to Optimize Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Prescriptions in Heart Failure Patients: Current Applications and Future Directions.Current heart failure reports · 2024Review
- Digital consults to optimize guideline-directed therapy: design of a pragmatic multicenter randomized controlled trial.ESC heart failure · 2024Article
- Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction and COVID-19, when the Sick Get Sicker: Unmasking Racial and Ethnic Inequities During a Pandemic.Cardiology clinics · 2023Review
- hapln1aNature communications · 2023Article
- Health Care Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Cardiovascular Practitioner.The Canadian journal of cardiology · 2023Review
- The COVID-19 Pandemic Did Not Adversely Affect Follow-up Patterns for Patients With Heart Failure Discharged From Emergency Departments.The Canadian journal of cardiology · 2023Article
- Did Access to Ambulatory Care Moderate the Associations Between Visit Mode and Ancillary Services Utilization Across the COVID-19 Pandemic Period?Medical care · 2023Article
- Management of Neck or Back Pain in Ambulatory Care: Did Visit Mode or the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Provider Practice or Patient Adherence?Medical care · 2023Article
- Frequency and Type of Outpatient Visits for Patients With Cardiovascular Ambulatory-Care Sensitive Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Subsequent Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
- Telehealth Use to Address Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2011-2021.Telemedicine reports · 2023Review
- Reflecting on the advancements of HFrEF therapies over the last two decades and predicting what is yet to come.European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology · 2022Article
- Telehealth: The Future of Consultations?JACC. Heart failure · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAn unprecedented shift to remote heart failure outpatient care occurred during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Given challenges inherent to remote care, we studied whether remote visits (video or telephone) were associated with different patient usage, clinician practice patterns, and outcomes.
methodsWe included all ambulatory cardiology visits for heart failure at a multisite health system from April 1, 2019, to December 31, 2019 (pre-COVID) or April 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020 (COVID era), resulting in 10 591 pre-COVID in-person, 7775 COVID-era in-person, 1009 COVID-era video, and 2322 COVID-era telephone visits. We used multivariable logistic and Cox proportional hazards regressions with propensity weighting and patient clustering to study ordering practices and outcomes.
resultsCompared with in-person visits, video visits were used more often by younger (mean 64.7 years [SD 14.5] versus 74.2 [14.1]), male (68.3% versus 61.4%), and privately insured (45.9% versus 28.9%) individuals (
conclusionsRemote visits for heart failure care were associated with reduced diagnostic testing and guideline-directed medical therapy prescription. Telephone but not video visits were associated with increased 90-day mortality.
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