Use of Telemonitoring in Chronic Heart Failure:Improving Clinical and

• 01/11/2007

Multiple hospital admissions for acute decompensation are characteristic for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients, deleteriously affecting their quality of life and imposing a major burden on national healthcare costs. The direct costs of CHF-related hospitalisations amount to 2.7 billion Euro per year. Due to the demographic evolution of European societies, the number of hospitalisations is...