SAGE Journals Online
Advertisement
Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.

 

Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Advertisement

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Home Health Care Management & Practice
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by McManus, S. G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

A Telehealth Program to Reduce Readmission Rates Among Heart Failure Patients: One Agency’s Experience

Susan G. McManus, RN, BSN

Home Health Services and Hospice visiting staff at the Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills in Bernardsville, New Jersey

Posthospital management of congestive heart failure (CHF), a chronic disease with frequent hospital readmissions, continues to challenge the already financially burdened health care system and growing nursing shortage. A promising approach to the multidisciplinary management of this and other chronic diseases is Telehealth, defined as the delivery of health care and sharing of medical knowledge over a distance using telecommunication systems. One home health agencycompared CHF patients’ hospital readmissions with patients who received routine home care skilled nursing visits and those who also received remote video telehealth contacts.

Key Words: congestive heart failure • remote monitoring • chronic disease management • telehealth • telecommunication systems

Home Health Care Management & Practice, Vol. 16, No. 4, 250-254 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1084822303262542
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Home Health Care Management PracticeHome page
D. R. Kaufman, J. Pevzner, C. Hilliman, R. S. Weinstock, J. Teresi, S. Shea, and J. Starren
Redesigning a Telehealth Diabetes Management Program for a Digital Divide Seniors Population
Home Health Care Management Practice, April 1, 2006; 18(3): 223 - 234.
[Abstract] [PDF]