Does remote monitoring improve outcome in patients with chronic heart failure?
Frances S Mair
Correspondence Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Glasgow, 1 Horselethill Road, Glasgow G12 9LX, UK
Email fm46c@clinmed.gla.ac.uk
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Long-term monitoring and management of chronic HF remains suboptimal despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment of this condition, and many hospital admissions could be avoided. Furthermore, patients with HF frequently experience clinical deterioration well in advance of hospitalization, but do not present for medical attention at this early stage. Subsequently, in recent years there has been great interest in the potential value of disease management programs that facilitate early intervention and promote optimum management of patients with HF. Systematic reviews have shown that multidisciplinary disease management programs for HF have a positive effect on patient outcomes in that they reduce all-cause and HF-related hospital admissions and mortality1, 2, 3 and have also been demonstrated to be cost-saving.4
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