Telehealth for long term conditions: Latest evidence doesn't warrant full scale roll-out but more careful exploration

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7865, 2012, Pages

  Car, Josip ^a   Huckvale, Kit ^a   Hermens, Hermie ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEART FAILURE; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; TELECONSULTATION; TELEHEALTH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NOTE; STATISTICS; TELEMEDICINE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84863806515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e4201     Document Type: Editorial

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