Telemonitoring Versus Usual Care for Elderly Patients With Heart Failure Discharged From the Hospital in the United States: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

• Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth Vol. 8; no. 7; p. e17846
• Main Authors: Jiang, Xinchan, Yao, Jiaqi, You, Joyce HS
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada JMIR Publications 06.07.2020
• Subjects: Aftercare; Aged; Blood pressure; Classification; Clinical trials; Cost analysis; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Heart failure; Heart Failure - therapy; Heart rate; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Humans; Intervention; Markov chains; Mortality; Original Paper; Patient Discharge - economics; Patients; Probability; Ratios; Sensitivity analysis; Telemedicine; Telemedicine - economics; United States; United States; New York; United States > US; heart failure; telemedicine; cost; hospitalization; cost-effectiveness analysis; quality-adjusted life year

Telemonitoring-guided interventional management reduces the need for hospitalization and mortality of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). This study aimed to analyze the cost-effectiveness of usual care with and without telemonitoring-guided management in patients with CHF discharged from the...