Home monitoring remote control of pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator patients in clinical practice: Impact on medical management and health-care resource utilization

Europace

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-170

  Ricci, Renato Pietro ^a   Morichelli, Loredana ^a   Santini, Massimo ^a  

^a SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac pacing; Heart failure; Home monitoring; Telecardiology; Ventricular tachyarrhythmias

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; PACEMAKER; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNOLOGY; TIME; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; COHORT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOME CARE; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; TELEMETRY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; COHORT STUDIES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TELEMETRY;

EID: 41949103591     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum289     Document Type: Article

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