Why the study?
Does a combination of face-to-face and telemedicine visits improve health and wellbeing in patients with COPD and/or CHF compared to conventional home care?
Does a combination of face-to-face and telemedicine visits improve health and wellbeing in patients with COPD and/or CHF compared to conventional home care?
The addition of telehealth to conventional home care for COPD and CHF patients does not significantly improve health and wellbeing, although patients report satisfaction with the technology.
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Telehealth adds no benefit for health and wellbeing in COPD/CHF; challenges assumptions of outcome gains and supports conventional care as standard.
Whitten et al. (2007) studied this question.
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