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. 2021 Jun 28;8(5):3613–3620. doi: 10.1002/ehf2.13413

Table 2.

Mortality and unplanned hospitalizations of the patients with or without an emergency call (EC) in TIM‐HF and TIM‐HF2

TIM HF TIM HF2
Without EC n = 216 With EC n = 138 P Without EC n = 468 With EC n = 279 P
All‐cause death 24 (11%) 30 (22%) 0.007 22 (4%) 45 (16%) <0.001
Total number of hospitalization 162 324 <0.001 180 545 <0.001
Total number of cardiovascular hospitalization 80 208 <0.001 109 279 <0.001
Number of hospitalization per patient 0.6 (0.5–0.7) 2.6 (2.2–3.0) <0.001 0.4 (0.3–0.4) 2.0 (1.8–2.2) <0.001
Days lost due to all‐cause hospitalization 9.2 (6.0–12.3) 31.3 (23.9–38.8) <0.001 6.3 (5.1–7.6) 23.3 (20.2–26.5) <0.001
Days lost due to cardiovascular hospitalization 3.2 (1.9–4.6) 22 (15.3–28.6) <0.001 2.9 (2.1–3.7) 11.5 (9.4–13.6) <0.001
Days lost due to cardiovascular hospitalization or all‐cause death during 1 year follow‐up * * 3.6 13.9 <0.001

EC, emergency call.

*

TIM‐HF had a fixed stopping date resulting in an individualized patient follow‐up time.