Use of home telemonitoring to support multidisciplinary care of heart failure patients in Finland: Randomized controlled trial

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Vuorinen, Anna Leena ^a   Leppänen, Juha ^a   Kaijanranta, Hannu ^a   Kulju, Minna ^a   Heliö, Tiina ^b   Van Gils, Mark ^a   Lähteenmäki, Jaakko ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Clinical outcomes; EHFSBS; Health care resources; Heart failure; Hospitalization; Telemonitoring; User experience

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CARE; TELENURSING;

FEMALE; FINLAND; HEART FAILURE; HOME HEALTH NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SELF CARE; TELENURSING;

EID: 84918582071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3651     Document Type: Article

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