Table 5.

Summary of all-cause mortality

Reference	Intervention	Results
Chaudhry et al. [21]	Automated monitoring of signs & symptoms	56% reduced mortality (1 study)
		95% CI 0.22-0.85
Clark et al. [10]	Telemonitoring – 4 studies	20% reduction in all-cause mortality (RR 0.80, 95% CI: 0.69 to 0.92; 14 studies)
	Structured telephone support – 9 studies	Decrease in all-cause mortality more pronounced with telemonitoring (RR 0.62, 95% CI: 0.45 to 0.85; 4 studies) than with structured telephone support (RR 0.85, 95% CI: 0.72 to 1.01; 9 studies)
	Telemonitoring and structured telephone support – 1 study
Giamouzis et al. [22]	Telemonitoring	Statistically significant reduced all-cause mortality (3 studies).
Inglis et al. [8]	Telemonitoring (transfer of daily data) – 11 studies	Telemonitoring reduced all-cause mortality (RR 0.66, 95% CI: 0.54–0.81; 11 studies)
	Structured Telephone support – 16 studies	Structured telephone support showed a non-significant trend towards reduced all-cause mortality (RR 0.88 95% CI: 0.76– 1.01; 15 studies)