Home telemonitoring of patients with diabetes: a systematic assessment of observed effects.
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2007-03-23
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Diabetes represents a common chronic disease continuously growing worldwide Unless closely monitored it can be associated with serious complications and high expenditures Telemonitoring is a patient management approach increasingly used with chronic illnesses It supports timely transmission and remote interpretation of patients data for follow up and preventive interventions No comprehensive review exists on all aspects of diabetes home telemonitoring and its effects The objective of this study is to provide a systematic review of this approach and its effect at the informational clinical behavioural structural and economical levels