Health Care Professionals' Perceptions of Home Telemonitoring in Heart Failure Care: Cross-Sectional Survey.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Noninvasive telemonitoring (TM) can be used in heart failure (HF) patients to perform early detection of decompensation at home, prevent unnecessary health care utilization, and decrease health care costs. However, the evidence is not sufficient to be part of HF guidelines for follow-up care, and we have no knowledge of how TM is used in the Nordic Baltic region. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to describe health care professionals' (HCPs) perception of and presumed experience with noninvasive TM in daily HF patient care, perspectives of the relevance of and reasons for applying noninvasive TM, and barriers to the use of noninvasive TM. METHODS:A cross-sectional survey was performed between September and December 2016 in Norway and Lithuania with physicians and nurses treati

SUBMITTER: Aamodt IT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6381407 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature