A Telehealth Program to Reduce Readmission Rates Among Heart Failure Patients: One Agency’s Experience  

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McManus, Susan G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Home Health Care Management & Practice vol. 16 no. 4 (Jun. 2004), page 250-254.
Topik: congestive heart failure; remote monitoring; chronic disease management; telehealth; telecommunication systems
Fulltext: 250HHC164.pdf (72.05KB)

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Posthospital management of congestive heart failure (CHF), a chronic disease with frequent hospital readmissions, continues to challenge the already financially burdened health care system and growing nursing shortage. A promising approach to the multidisciplinary management of this and other chronic diseases is Telehealth, defined as the delivery of health care and sharing of medical knowledge over a distance using telecommunication systems. One home health agency compared CHF patients’ hospital readmissions with patients who received routine home care skilled nursing visits and those who also received remote video telehealth contacts.

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