title: Home monitoring should be the central element in an effective program of heart failure disease management.
authors.affiliation: Tufts Medical Center, 800 Washington St., Boston, MA 02111, USA. mkonstam@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
authors.forename: Marvin A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Konstam
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017046:Cost Savings; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D019468:Disease Management; D005260:Female; D017048:Health Care Costs; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009026:Mortality; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011788:Quality of Life; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013686:Telemetry; D013689:Telephone; D014481:United States