Managing Heart Failure Care Using an Internet-Based Telemedicine System

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 121-126

  Kashem, Abul ^a   Droogan, Marie T ^a   Santamore, William P ^a   Wald, Joyce W ^b   Bove, Alfred A ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic heart failure; internet; surveillance; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HISPANIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TELEMEDICINE;

AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 39749179052     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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