Telemonitoring in patients with heart failure [1]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1078-1080

  Swedberg, Karl ^a   Wolf, Axel ^a   Ekman, Inger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LETTER; MOBILE PHONE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CARE; TELEMONITORING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79952793306     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1100395     Document Type: Letter

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