Effect of Chronic Disease Home Telehealth Monitoring in the Veterans Health Administration on Healthcare Utilization and Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The high prevalence of chronic diseases, including congestive heart failure (CHF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and diabetes mellitus (DM), accounts for a large burden of cost and poor health outcomes in US hospitals, and home telehealth (HT) monitoring has been proposed to improve outcomes.

Objective

To measure the association between HT initiation and 12-month inpatient hospitalizations, emergency department (ED) visits, and mortality in veterans with CHF, COPD, or DM.

Design

Comparative effectiveness matched cohort study.

Patients

Veterans aged 65 years and older treated for CHF, COPD, or DM.

Main measures

We matched veterans initiating HT with veterans with similar demographics who did not use HT (1:3). Our outcome measure

SUBMITTER: Mohr NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10682298 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature