Cost comparison between home telemonitoring and usual care of older adults: A randomized trial (Tele-ERA)

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-8

  Upatising, Benjavan ^a   Wood, Douglas L ^b   Kremers, Walter K ^b   Christ, Sharon L ^c,d   Yih, Yuehwern ^e   Hanson, Gregory J ^b   Takahashi, Paul Y ^b  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

30 day readmission; Cost comparison; home telemonitoring; older adult; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

TELEMEDICINE;

30-DAY READMISSION; BOOTSTRAPPING METHOD; COST COMPARISONS; COST DIFFERENCES; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; HOME TELEMONITORING; MULTIVARIATE GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS; OLDER ADULTS;

COSTS;

AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PATIENT READMISSION; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921454055     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2014.0021     Document Type: Article

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