The impact of telehome care on health status and quality of life among patients with diabetes in a primary care setting in Poland

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 153-163

  Bujnowska Fedak, Maria Magdalena ^a   Puchała, Edward ^b   Steciwko, Andrzej ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

diabetes; primary care setting; quality of life; telehomecare

Indexed keywords

ADULT PATIENTS; CONTROL GROUPS; CONTROLLED TRIAL; DIABETES; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; GLUCOSE MONITORS; HEALTH STATUS; OBSERVATION PERIOD; PRIMARY CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMALL SAMPLES; TELE-MONITORING; TELEHOMECARE; TELEMONITORING SYSTEMS; TYPE-2 DIABETES;

GLUCOSE;

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; INSULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLAND; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELEMEDICINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLAND; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEMEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955122690     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2010.0113     Document Type: Article

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