Structured Telephone Support or Telemonitoring Programs for Patients with Chronic Heart Failure (Protocol)

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: The objective of this study is to update the review previously completed by Clark 2007b and assess systematically the effects of telemonitoring and/or structured telephone support programmes on: 1. all cause mortality, CHF-related admission to hospital, all-cause readmissions to hospital and length of stay and; 2. quality of life, healthcare cost savings in patients with CHF. The cost of the intervention and acceptability of the intervention to patients will also be examined.