title: Home monitoring for congestive heart failure patients.
abstract: Congestive heart failure eats up a lot of this country's health care dollars. Posthospitalization care is important to preclude readmissions and keep costs down. Telemedicine offers a solution to this challenge.
authors.affiliation: Visiting Nurse Association of Los Angeles, Inc, USA.
authors.forename: P Z
authors.initials: PZ
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D001831:Body Temperature / Q000502:physiology; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education; D017046:Cost Savings; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology