Telecare for Diabetes, CHF or COPD: Effect on Quality of Life, Hospital Use and Costs. A Randomised Controlled Trial and Qualitative Evaluation

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Telecare for Diabetes, CHF or COPD: Effect on Quality of Life, Hospital Use and Costs. A Randomised Controlled Trial and Qualitative Evaluation

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ObjectivesTo assess the effect of telecare on health related quality of life, self-care, hospital use, costs and the experiences of patients, informal carers and health care professionals.MethodsPatients were randomly assigned either to usual care or to additionally entering their data into a commercially-available electronic device that uploaded data once a day to a nurse-led monitoring station. Patients had congestive heart failure (Site A), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Site B), o...

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13 Mar, 2015

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Timothy W. Kenealy / Matthew J. G. Parsons / A. Paul B. Rouse / Robert N. Doughty / Nicolette F. Sheridan / Jennifer K. Harré Hindmarsh / Sarah C. Masson / Harry H. Rea

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https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Telecare_for_Diabetes_CHF_or_COPD_Effect_on_Quality_of_Life...

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Site C / telecare / chf / staff / health care professionals.MethodsPatients / ACTRN / intervention / Qualitative Evaluation ObjectivesTo / life / Emergency Department Visits / Randomised Controlled Trial / sf / copd / data / Biological Sciences

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