Home Monitoring for Heart Failure Management
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Home monitoring for heart failure management.
With a prevalence of 5.8 million in the United States alone, heart failure (HF) is a common syndrome associated with substantial morbidity, mortality, and healthcare expenditures. Close to 1 million HF hospitalizations occur annually in the United States, with the majority of these resulting from worsening congestion in patients previously diagnosed with HF. An estimated $37.2 billion is spent ...
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Heart failure (HF) is a major and growing public health problem in the United States. On the basis of current trajectories, it has been estimated that, over the next 20 years, the prevalence of HF will increase by 25%, from 2.8% to 3.5% of the population (Figure 1).1 The increased prevalence may be expected to contribute to an increase in annual direct medical costs from the present estimate of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.09.044