Clinically Validated

Publications

CHF Disease Management: Hospital-Sponsored Initiatives to Enhance Clinical Care. Cardiovascular Roundtable Interviews. Innovations in CHF Care Volume II. The Advisory Board.

Moyer-Knox D, Mueller TM, Vuckovic K, Mischke L, Williams RE: Remote Titration of Carvedilol for Heart Failure Patients by Advanced Practice Nurses. Journal of Cardiac Failure Vol 10, No 3, pp 219-224, June 2004.

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Michael W. Rich: Quality Improvement in Heart Failure: A Simple Solution to the Beta-Blocker Problem. Journal of Cardiac Failure, Vol 10, No 3, pp 225-227, June 2004.

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John R. Griffith and Kenneth R. White with Patricia Cahill: "Case Management: Optimizing Quality of Life at the Mercy Health Network" Thinking Forward: Six Strategies for Highly Successful Organizations. Health Administration Press, Chicago, IL, 2003.

Randall E. Williams, Karen Acker, John Cashy: Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial (RCT) of an Automated Daily Heart Failure Telemonitoring Program. Journal of Cardiac Failure Vol 9, No 5, p S63, October 2003 Supplement.

Mueller TM, Vuckovic K, Knox D, Williams RE: Telemanagement of Heart Failure: A Diuretic Treatment Algorithm for Advanced Practice Nurses. Heart and Lung 2002; 31:340-7.

Randall Williams, Patricia Kentgen, Deborah Willyard, William Wickemeyer, Kris Mannchen, Dennis Bresnehan: Multi-Center Validation of CHF Tel-Assurance™ Telemonitoring Program: Enhanced Patient Compliance and Reduced Hospitalizations. Circulation Vol 104, No 17, Supplement, p II-839, October 23, 2001.

Randall Williams, Teresa Mueller, Deborah Knox, Karen Vuckovic, Lisa Mischke, Thomas Stamos, Michael Waligora: Development and Application of a Clinical Decision Algorithm to Guide Nurse Management of CHF Patients Through Daily Telemonitoring: Reductions in Hospitalization and Practitioner Variation. Journal of Cardiac Failure Vol 7, No 3, Suppl 2, p98, September 2001.

Randall Williams, Pamela Roberts, Deborah Knox, John Pitocco, Patricia Kentgen: Daily Patient Generated Computer Assisted Monitoring of CHF Symptoms and Weight Reduces All-Cause and CHF Hospitalizations, Length of Stay, and Costs. Supplement to Circulation: Abstracts from Scientific Sessions, HFSA, 2001.

Randall Williams, Patricia Kentgen, Deborah Willyard, William Wickemeyer, Kris Mannchen, Dennis Bresnehan: Multi-Center Validation of CHF Tel-Assurance™ Telemonitoring Program: Enhanced Patient Compliance and Reduced Hospitalizations. Journal of Cardiac Failure Vol 7, No 3, Suppl 2, p 93, September 2001.

Deborah A. Knox, RN, MSN, David M. Najman, MD, Teresa Mueller, RN, Randall E. Williams, MD: Evaluation of Computer Assisted Daily Telephonic Monitoring to Titrate Beta-blocker Therapy in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure. Journal of Cardiac Failure Vol 6 (3) Suppl. 2, p 76, September 2000.

Knox D, Mischke L: Implementing a congestive heart failure disease management program to decrease length of stay and cost. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing 1999 Oct; 14 (1): 55-74.

Randall E. Williams, Kimberley W. Bogue, Deborah A. Knox, Lisa E. Mischke: Telephone monitoring facilitates safe and rapid titration of the alpha/beta blocker, Carvedilol, in heart failure patients. Journal of Cardiac Failure Vol 4 (3), Supplement, September, 1998.

Williams RE, Keiler L, Sprang M, Mehan C: Telemanagement of Congestive Heart Failure: Results of Daily Weight and Symptom Tracking. Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol 29 (2), Supplement A, p 247A, 1997.

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