INTERVENCION DE TELEMONITORIZACION

come measures included the length of hospital stay (number of bed-days for
emergency admissions with a primary diagnosis of HF, CLD and other
causes during 12 months after randomisation), mortality rates, impact on
quality of life, telemonitoring compliance, patient and professional satisfaction
with the new procedure and the effect on the use of other healthcare
resources (emergency department attendances, home visits, appointments at
the health centres and with the specialists and telephone calls).
The data obtained were analysed at 3, 6 and 12 months post-randomisation.
The primary and secondary outcome measures in both groups of
patients were compared to determine statistically significant differences. The
Student’s t-test and the non-parametric Wilcoxon test were used for the
comparison of quantitative variables for normally and non-normally distributed
data, respectively. For the comparison of categorical variables, the Chisquare
or Fisher’s exact test were used. The level of statistical significance
was set at p