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Use of telemonitoring to decrease the rate of hospitalization in patients with severe congestive heart failure
M E Cordisco1, A Benjaminovitz, K Hammond
1Division of Circulatory Physiology, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|October 8, 1999
Abstract:
We investigated whether the application of a home-based telemonitoring system could decrease hospital admissions and emergency room visits in 30 patients with severe congestive heart failure compared with 51 patients with congestive heart failure who received standard therapy. Emergency room visits (1 vs 11) and hospitalizations (13 vs 36) were decreased in the telemonitored group (both p <0.05).