[Home-based telemonitoring of simple vital signs to reduce hospitalization in heart failure patients: real-world data from a community-based hospital].

Background: Whether home telemonitoring after acute episodes of heart failure (HF) may reduce de-novo cardiac decompensation is disputed. We tested home telemonitoring of blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), and blood oxygen saturation (SO2) to reduce rehospitalization in patients with recent admission for acute HF. METHODS; We screened patients hospitalized in Cardiology due to prominent cardiac cause of acute dyspnea, and pulmonary/peripheral congestion, and with one admission or more for similar symptoms/signs in the previous year.