Disease management for heart failure patients: Role of wireless technologies for telemedicine. The ICAROS project;Continuità assistenziale nei pazienti con scompenso cardiaco: Ruolo delle tecnologie wireless per la telemedicina. II progetto ICAROS

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-114

  Villani, Alessandra ^a   Malfatto, Gabriella ^a   Della Rosa, Francesco ^a,b   Branzi, Giovanna ^a   Boarin, Simona ^a   Borghi, Claudio ^c   Cosentino, Eugenio ^c   Gualerzi, Massimo ^d   Coruzzi, Paolo ^d   Molinari, Enrico ^e   Compare, Angelo ^e   Cassi, Maurizio ^f   Collatina, Stefano ^g   Parati, Gianfranco ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^f ICAROS FIRB Technical Project   (Italy)

^g Donetsk R and D Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Disease management; Heart failure; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; ITALY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TELEMEDICINE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; ITALY; MALE; MICROCOMPUTERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34147203257     PISSN: 18276806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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