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Effect of post-discharge virtual wards on improving outcomes in heart failure and non-heart failure populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Unplanned hospital admissions in high-risk patients are common and costly in an increasingly frail chronic disease population. Virtual Wards (VW) are an emerging concept to improve outcomes in these patients. PURPOSE: To evaluate the effect of post-discharge VWs, as an alternative to usu...

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Autores principales: Uminski, Kelsey, Komenda, Paul, Whitlock, Reid, Ferguson, Thomas, Nadurak, Stewart, Hochheim, Laura, Tangri, Navdeep, Rigatto, Claudio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5927407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29708997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196114