Home monitoring for congestive heart failure patients

Caring. 1995 Aug;14(8):53-4.

Abstract

Congestive heart failure eats up a lot of this country's health care dollars. Posthospitalization care is important to preclude readmissions and keep costs down. Telemedicine offers a solution to this challenge.

MeSH terms

  • Blood Pressure / physiology
  • Body Temperature / physiology
  • Body Weight / physiology
  • Community Health Nursing / education
  • Cost Savings
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Failure / economics
  • Heart Failure / epidemiology
  • Heart Failure / physiopathology*
  • Home Care Services / economics
  • Home Care Services / standards*
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / economics
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / instrumentation
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods*
  • Telemedicine / economics
  • Telemedicine / standards*
  • United States / epidemiology