Perspective of telemedicine and monitoring through devices in chronic heart failure patients: Lights and shadows;Prospettive della telemedicina e del monitoraggio mediante dispositivi nel paziente con scompenso cardiaco cronico: luci e ombre

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 11, Issue 5 SUPPL.2, 2010, Pages

  Mortara, Andrea ^a   Oliva, Fabrizio ^b   Di Lenarda, Andrea ^c  

^a Fondazione Policlinico   (Italy)

^b AO Niguarda Ca' Granda   (Italy)

^c Centro Cardiovascolare   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic heart failure; Devices; Hemodynamic monitoring; Readmissions; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; ECONOMICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; TELEMEDICINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; TELEMEDICINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77958182543     PISSN: 18276806     EISSN: 19726481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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