de la Torre Díez Isabel, Garcia-Zapirain Begoña, Méndez-Zorrilla Amaia, López-Coronado Miguel
Department of Signal Theory and Communications, and Telematics Engineering, University of Valladolid, Paseo de Belén, 15, 47011, Valladolid, Spain.
University of Deusto, Avenida de las Universidades 24, 48007, Bilbao, Spain.
J Med Syst. 2016 Jul;40(7):179. doi: 10.1007/s10916-016-0537-y. Epub 2016 Jun 11.
In developed countries heart failure is one of the most important causes of death, followed closely by strokes and other cerebrovascular diseases. It is one of the major healthcare issues in terms of increasing number of patients, rate of hospitalizations and costs. The main aim of this paper is to present telemedicine applications for monitoring and follow-up of heart failure and to show how these systems can help reduce costs of administering heart failure. The search for e-health applications and systems in the field of telemonitoring of heart failure was pursued in IEEE Xplore, Science Direct, PubMed and Scopus systems between 2005 and the present time. This search was conducted between May and June 2015, and the articles deemed to be of most interest about treatment, prevention, self-empowerment and stabilization of patients were selected. Over 100 articles about telemonitoring of heart failure have been found in the literature reviewed since 2005, although the most interesting ones have been selected from the scientific standpoint. Many of them show that telemonitoring of patients with a high risk of heart failure is a measure that might help to reduce the risk of suffering from the disease. Following the review conducted, in can be stated that via the research articles analysed that telemonitoring systems can help to reduce the costs of administering heart failure and result in less re-hospitalization of patients.
在发达国家，心力衰竭是最重要的死因之一，紧随其后的是中风和其他脑血管疾病。就患者数量增加、住院率和成本而言，它是主要的医疗保健问题之一。本文的主要目的是介绍用于心力衰竭监测和随访的远程医疗应用，并展示这些系统如何有助于降低心力衰竭的管理成本。2005年至今，在IEEE Xplore、Science Direct、PubMed和Scopus系统中搜索了心力衰竭远程监测领域的电子健康应用和系统。该搜索于2015年5月至6月进行，筛选出了被认为对患者治疗、预防、自我赋能和病情稳定最具价值的文章。自2005年以来，在回顾的文献中发现了100多篇关于心力衰竭远程监测的文章，不过是从科学角度挑选出了最有价值的文章。其中许多文章表明，对心力衰竭高危患者进行远程监测是一种有助于降低患病风险的措施。经过上述回顾，可以说通过对分析的研究文章可知，远程监测系统有助于降低心力衰竭的管理成本，并减少患者再次住院的情况。
