Congestive heart failure clinics and telemedicine: The key to reducing hospital readmissions in the United States

The United States healthcare system currently faces an economic challenge related to frequent hospital readmission rates. As such, hospitals have begun implementing strategies to reduce readmission rates for specific medical conditions such as congestive heart failure, which had a 30-day readmission...

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Autores principales: Ramgobin, Devyani, Vo, Maique, Golarmari, Reshma, Jain, Rahul, Jain, Rohit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Via Medica 2022
Materias:
Clinical Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9788733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34308538
http://dx.doi.org/10.5603/CJ.a2021.0073
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Sumario:The United States healthcare system currently faces an economic challenge related to frequent hospital readmission rates. As such, hospitals have begun implementing strategies to reduce readmission rates for specific medical conditions such as congestive heart failure, which had a 30-day readmission rate of 23.2% in 2014. Patient education and frequent monitoring of symptoms have since allowed patients to work together with doctors and nurses to take charge of their healthcare management. Due to heart failure clinics and the rise of telemedicine and telemonitoring, heart failure readmission rates have since decreased.

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