Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel)
Brief Summary: The IDEATel study is a multicenter randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy, acceptability, and cost-effectiveness of telemedicine case management to provide diabetes care to elderly Medicare beneficiaries residing in medically underserved areas of New York State.


Options:
A: 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
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (the onset of diabetes must have occurred on or after the age of 30 years and there is no history of diabetic ketoacidosis)
* Uncontrolled systolic hypertension (defined as a daytime systolic BP of 130 mm Hg or higher on 24-hour ambulatory)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Conditions making the patient unsuitable for study such as severe cognitive impairment, language difficulties (unable to speak and understand instructions in English), frequent (more than once per month for more than week) or prolonged (more than 2 months) trips away from home, homelessness, self-identified substance abuse, being pregnant, or unable to use home BP device;
* Life expectancy less than one year
* Coexisting conditions that require frequent (more than once a month) office visits or repeated (more than once in the past year) hospitalizations
* Atrial fibrillation or other cardiac arrhythmias requiring drug treatment
* Moderately severe chronic renal failure defined as estimated GFR less than 25 mL/min
* Myocardial infarction, episode of heart failure requiring hospitalization, or paralyzing stroke in the past year
* Having unstable angina
* Severe valvular heart diseases such as severe aortic stenosis
* Symptomatic orthostatic hypotension
* Refusal to sign consent form or to carry out the demands made by the study
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 55 years or greater
* Being a current Medicare beneficiary (verified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
* Having diabetes mellitus as defined by a physician's diagnosis and being on treatment with diet, an oral hypoglycemic agent, or insulin
* Residence in a federally designated medically underserved area (either of two federal designations, Medically Underserved Area \[MUA\] or Health Manpower Shortage Area \[HPSA\]) in New York Sate
* Fluency in either English or Spanish

Exclusion Criteria:

* Moderate or severe cognitive, visual, or physical impairment
* The presence of severe co-morbid disease.
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Clinical diagnosis of COPD stage III or IV according to GOLD guidelines
* \>45 years of age
* Compliant patient (is able to see, hear and follow instructions)
* Estimated admission time \> 2 days

Exclusion Criteria:

* X-score \> 4 at randomization(need of NIV or respirator)
* severe overweight assessed by investigator
* serious comorbidity (malignancy,unstable heart disease, dysregulated diabetes or other disease that makes participation impossible)
* non-compliant patient (cannot follow simple instructions)
* fever (\>38 degrees Celsius) at randomization point, in need of I.V. antibiotics assessed by investigator
* participation in another clinical trial within the last 30 days

Answer: C