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A telecare patient communication system will prompt rapid contact with the hospital in the case of unfavorable registered clinical parameters or subjective symptoms. The home telemonitored women will attend hospital visits for fetal ultrasound assessment at individually assigned intervals. Patients undergoing in-hospital care will serve as the control group in this study and receive standard care. The primary outcome is a composite of severe maternal and perinatal adverse outcomes (sepsis, eclampsia, cerebral hemorrhage, acute respiratory distress syndrome, liver rupture, pulmonary embolism, amniotic fluid embolism, hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets, HELLP without hemolysis, and disseminated intravascular coagulation), including fetal or neonatal mortality, maternal mortality, and signs of severe organ damage. 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