Table 3 Secondary outcomes: follow-ups between months 1 and 13
|  | Telemetry (N = 102) n (%) / mean ± SD | Personal contact | p-value (telemetry vs. personal contact) | p-value (telemetry vs. remote+phone vs. visit) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All (N = 108) n (%) / mean ± SD | Remote+phone (N = 53) n (%) / mean ± SD | Visit (N = 55) n (%) / mean ± SD | ||||
FU duration (days) | 372.8 ± 100.3 | 366.9 ± 127.5 | 349.9 ± 147.8 | 384.0 ± 102.0 | 0.689 | 0.490 |
Unscheduled FUs | ||||||
 No. of FUs /patient | 1.2 ± 2.6 | 0.9 ± 1.8 | 1.0 ± 1.7 | 0.8 ± 2.0 | 0.550 | 0.285 |
 Total number | 120 | 99 | 54 | 45 |  |  |
 Considered reasonable | 90 (75.0) | 77 (77.8%) | 43 (79.6) | 34 (75.6) | 0.631 | 0.797 |
 With findings | 55 (45.8) | 57 (57.6) | 28 (51.9) | 29 (64.4) | 0.084 | 0.104 |
 Medical | 40 (33.3) | 37 (37.4) | 17 (31.5) | 20 (44.4) | 0.534 | 0.335 |
 Technical | 9 (7.5) | 12 (12.1) | 9 (16.7) | 3 (6.7) | 0.249 | 0.126 |
All FUs | ||||||
 Patients with relevant findings at ≥1 FU | 50 (49.0) | 50 (46.3) | 26 (49.1) | 24 (43.6) | 0.693 | 0.789 |
 Medical | 42 (41.2) | 40 (37.0) | 19 (35.8) | 21 (38.2) | 0.539 | 0.803 |
 Technical | 16 (15.7) | 19 (17.6) | 11 (20.8) | 8 (14.5) | 0.711 | 0.642 |
 Patients with ICD therapy at ≥1 FU | 17 (16.7) | 15 (13.9) | 7 (13.2) | 8 (14.5) | 0.576 | 0.839 |
 ICD shock | 9 (8.8) | 9 (8.3) | 4 (7.5) | 5 (9.1) | 0.899 | 0.792 |
 ATP therapy | 16 (15.7) | 14 (13.0) | 7 (13.2) | 7 (12.7) | 0.573 | 0.851 |
System revisions | ||||||
 Patients requiring ≥1 | 6 (5.9) | 1 (0.9) | 1 (1.9) | 0 (0) | 0.059 | 0.141 |
 Mean per patient | 0.06 ± 0.02 | 0.01 ± 0.10 | 0.02 ± 0.14 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 0.046 | 0.118 |