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Does home telemonitoring reduce clinic visits and rehospitalizations in elderly heart failure patients?
Does home telemonitoring reduce clinic visits and rehospitalizations in elderly heart failure patients?
Home telemonitoring reduces healthcare utilization in elderly heart failure patients compared to usual specialist care.
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Supports home telemonitoring to reduce HF visits and rehospitalizations; confirms equivalent outcomes to usual care at minimal added cost.
Home telemonitoring in a typical elderly population of heart failure patients produces a similar outcome to 'usual' specialist care, but reduces clinic and emergency room visits and unplanned heart failure rehospitalizations at little additional cost. This method of disease monitoring may allow specialist services to increase the number of patients under their care.
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