Key result
Remote video telehealth contacts were compared to routine home care for hospital readmissions among CHF patients, though no quantitative results were reported in the abstract.
Why the study?
Does remote video telehealth added to routine home care reduce hospital readmissions in congestive heart failure patients?
Observational
No
Does remote video telehealth added to routine home care reduce hospital readmissions in congestive heart failure patients?
This study evaluates whether adding remote video telehealth to routine home care reduces hospital readmissions in patients with congestive heart failure.
No readmission data reported from this cohort; leaves open telehealth's role in CHF home care.
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 agencycompared 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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Susan McManus (2004) conducted an observational in Congestive heart failure (CHF). Remote video telehealth contacts vs. Routine home care skilled nursing visits was evaluated on Hospital readmissions. Remote video telehealth contacts were compared to routine home care for hospital readmissions among CHF patients, though no quantitative results were reported in the abstract.
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