Impact of telehealth on clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure

Clinical Nursing Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 182-199

  Dansky, Kathryn H ^a   Vasey, Joseph ^a   Bowles, Kathryn ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Home care services; Hospitalization; Monitoring; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VIDEORECORDING;

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 46749089019     PISSN: 10547738     EISSN: 15523799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1054773808320837     Document Type: Article

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