The impact of adherence on costs and effectiveness of telemedical patient management in heart failure

A. S. Hameed; S. Sauermann; G. Schreier

doi:10.4338/ACI-2014-04-RA-0037

Applied Clinical Informatics, Table of Contents

Appl Clin Inform 2014; 05(03): 612-620
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2014-04-RA-0037

Research Article

Schattauer GmbH

The impact of adherence on costs and effectiveness of telemedical patient management in heart failure

A systematic review

Authors

A. S. Hameed

¹Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic

³Assistive Healthcare Information Technology, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Graz, Austria
S. Sauermann

²Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna, Austria
G. Schreier

³Assistive Healthcare Information Technology, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Graz, Austria

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Keywords

Telemedicine - mHealth - therapy adherence/compliance - cost-effectiveness - heart failure

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