Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: A Study of Telemonitoring to Improve Heart Failure Outcomes
Brief Summary: The primary purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of telemonitoring compared with usual guideline-based care in preventing hospitalization for heart failure patients.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Cigarette smoker (smoked at least 1 cigarette in the month before hospital admission and at least 1 cigarette per day when smoking at baseline rate in the month before hospital admission)
* Counseled by hospital smoking counselor during hospital stay
* Plans to stop smoking tobacco products after hospital discharge
* Agrees to take home a supply of smoking cessation medication after discharge
* Agrees to and able to accept telephone calls after hospital discharge

Exclusion Criteria:

* No access to a telephone or unable to communicate by telephone
* Severe psychiatric or neurologic disease precluding ability to provide informed consent and to be counseled
* Pregnant, nursing, or planning to become pregnant in next 3 months
* Unable to speak English
* Medical instability precluding study participation
B: Inclusion Criteria:: 1) men and women aged \>40 years participating in supervised Phase II CR. The CR population tends to be older (mean age: 64.5+11.9, range 38-83 years, Preliminary Studies C.6.) and by including adults as young as 40 years, we expect to offer the program to the majority of Phase II CR patients. (2) scheduled to complete Phase II CR in the next 4 weeks, 3) able to read and speak English, 4) provide consent for medical chart review to extract disease and treatment variables, 5) able to walk unassisted. 6) We plan to include patients who participated in Phase II CR due to a diagnosis of coronary heart disease (e.g., post- MI, CABG, chronic angina pectoris) or chronic heart failure.

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Exclusion Criteria:1) Prior neurological brain disorder (e.g., Seizure Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury. Patients with prior neurological disease, including large vessel stroke and Alzheimer's Disease will be excluded. 2) An arbitrary Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) cutoff score of \>10 will be set to exclude patients whose scores suggest dementia or cognitive impairments that will interfere with ability to provide informed consent and complete research demands.

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C: Inclusion Criteria:

* age 18 years or older
* hospitalized for heart failure within the past 30 days
* access to telephone line

Exclusion Criteria:

* not expected to survive 6 months due to irreversible, life-threatening condition
* has or scheduled for cardiac transplant or LVAD
* scheduled for CABG or PCI within 90 days
* severe valvular disease
* Folstein MMSE score less than 20
* resident of a nursing home
* currently a prisoner
* does not speak English or Spanish
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Diabetes diagnosis
* Attend one of 4 CHNSF clinics
* Ages 18 or above
* Speak English, Spanish or Cantonese
* Have a touch tone phone
* Have had one or more clinic visits in the preceding 24 months
* Will be in the SF Bay Area for the following six months

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnant
* Unable to provide verbal consent
* Leaving the region in the next 12 months

Answer: C