Table 4.

Clinic outcomes

Outcomes	Virtual clinic (n = 496)	Traditional clinic (n = 1220)
Investigations booked:	191 (38.5%)	680 (55.7%)	p < 0.00001
1 investigation	167	465
2 investigations	24	186	p < 0.00001
3 investigations	0	29
Investigations:
Imaging Blood tests Monitoring Functional testing	91 (18.3%) 75 (15.1%) 44 (8.8%) 7 (1.4%)	383 (31.4%) 249 (20.4%) 224 (18.4%) 69 (5.7%)	p < 0.00001 p = 0.011157 p < 0.00001 p = 0.000107
Patients ≥ 1 management change:	99 (19.9%)	470 (38.5%)	p < 0.00001
Management:
Medication changes	80 (16.1%)	390 (31.9%)	p < 0.00001
Angiogram booked	13 (2.6%)	40 (3.3%)
Medical specialty referral	5 (1.0%)	45 (3.7%)	p = 0.002765
Specialist nurse clinic referral Referral for device Referral for valve surgery Referral for coronary artery bypass grafting	5 (1.0%) 2 (0.4%) 1 (0.2%) 1 (0.2%)	32 (2.6%) 8 (0.7%) 5 (0.4%) 1 (0.1%)	p = 0.036813
Outcome:
Return clinic Discharged Not specified	353 (71.2%) 143 (28.8%) 0	980 (80.3%) 239 (19.6%) 1 (0.1%)	p = 0.00003