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Elderly patients with COPD require more health care than elderly heart failure patients do in a hospital-based home care setting

BACKGROUND: Elderly patients with advanced stages of COPD or chronic heart failure (CHF) often require hospitalization due to exacerbations. We hypothesized that telemonitoring supported by hospital-based home care (HBHC) would detect exacerbations early, thus, reducing the number of hospitalization...

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Autores principales: Persson, Hans Lennart, Lyth, Johan, Wiréhn, Ann-Britt, Lind, Leili
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6642647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31406459
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S207621

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