Abstract
Objective: To determine the feasibility of home monitoring of patients with cardiac disease or hypertension. Methods: An improved home electrocardiographic and blood pressure telemonitoring system linked to a central workstation was tested in 10 patients in Macau for 3 months. Results: The total number of connections was 1377. Of the automatic alarm connections, 32.5% were false positive, with the percentage of false positives ranging from 7.6 to 54.6 for different patients. Both patients and physicians found the system easy to use. Conclusions: Further investigation is required to match the number of patients with the system capacity. A more robust dysrhythmia detection algorithm is needed to reduce the number of false alarms. Nevertheless, the results were sufficiently good that the trial is being expanded.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 67-72 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Telemedicine Journal |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1997 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine(all)