title: The impact of telehealth monitoring on acute care hospitalization rates and emergency department visit rates for patients using home health skilled nursing care.
abstract: This article describes the design and results of a study to demonstrate the impact of telemonitoring on acute care hospitalization (ACH) and emergency department (ED) visit rates for a Medicare-certified home health agency (HHA). Sociodemographic characteristics did not significantly differ between patients in the baseline, control, and intervention groups. Patients in the telemonitoring group had a statistically lower rate of ACH and ED visit rates. Telemonitoring may be an effective strategy for HHAs to reduce hospitalization and ED visits for patients with cardiac and/or respiratory conditions.
authors.affiliation: Greenville Hospital System Home Health Agency, Greenville, South Carolina, USA. lwoods@ghs.org
authors.forename: Landace W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Woods
authors.forename: Susan W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Snow
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D006278:Medicare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States