Enhancing patient engagement and blood pressure management for renal transplant recipients via home electronic monitoring and web-enabled collaborative care

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 850-854

  Aberger, Edward W ^a,b   Migliozzi, Daniel ^c   Follick, Michael J ^a,b   Malick, Tom ^a   Ahern, David K ^a,d  

^a Abacus Group   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

e health; home health monitoring; pharmacy; telehealth; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNET; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROCEDURES; TELEMEDICINE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERNET; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TELEMEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84906912166     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2013.0317     Document Type: Article

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