Key result
Remote monitoring in heart failure patients suggested decreased hospital utilization and average cost per hospitalization at 90 days, though statistical significance was not noted.
Why the study?
Does remote monitoring reduce hospital utilization and costs in patients with heart failure after discharge?
Cohort (n=326)
No
Does remote monitoring reduce hospital utilization and costs in patients with heart failure after discharge?
p-value: p=not significant
Remote monitoring may clinically reduce hospital utilization and costs for heart failure patients post-discharge, despite lacking statistical significance in this pilot study.
Should not yet change post-discharge HF care; leaves open whether remote monitoring reduces utilization and costs.
The long-term effects of remote monitoring on hospital utilization and health care costs are understudied in home health care. The researchers performed a retrospective study, in a hospital-based home health care agency, to consider the effects of remote monitoring in 326 patients with heart failure 90 days after discharge from services. While statistical significance was not noted, clinical significance suggests that there was a decreased hospital utilization rate and decreased average cost per hospitalization in the remote monitoring group.
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Williams et al. (2014) conducted a cohort in Heart failure (n=326). Remote monitoring was evaluated on Hospital utilization rate and average cost per hospitalization (p=not significant). Remote monitoring in heart failure patients suggested decreased hospital utilization and average cost per hospitalization at 90 days, though statistical significance was not noted.
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