Telemonitoring in Chronic Heart Failure: A Systematic Review
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Telemonitoring in Chronic Heart Failure: A Systematic Review
Heart failure (HF) is a growing epidemic with the annual number of hospitalizations constantly increasing over the last decades for HF as a primary or secondary diagnosis. Despite the emergence of novel therapeutic approached that can prolong life and shorten hospital stay, HF patients will be needing rehospitalization and will often have a poor prognosis. Telemonitoring is a novel diagnostic m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cardiology Research and Practice
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2090-8016,2090-0597
DOI: 10.1155/2012/410820