San Francisco Va Health Care System

This study tested whether mailing a simple informational postcard could help patients reconnect their home heart device monitors after they became disconnected. It involved over 1,300 veterans with pacemakers, defibrillators, or heart monitors. Researchers randomly sent some pati…

This study tested whether mailing informational postcards could help patients reconnect their heart device monitors after they became disconnected. Researchers sent postcards to over 2,700 veterans whose remote heart monitors had stopped transmitting data. The postcards reminded …