Complexity of management and health outcomes in a prospective cohort study of 573 heart failure patients in Australia: does more equal less?

Andrea Driscoll, Andrew Tonkin, Andrew Stewart, Linda Worrall‐Carter, David R Thompson, Barbara Riegel, David L Hare, Patricia M Davidson, Christine Mulvany and Simon Stewart

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2013, vol. 22, issue 11-12, 1629-1638

Abstract: Aims and objectives To compare the efficacy of chronic heart failure management programmes (CHF‐MPs) according to a scoring algorithm used to quantify the level of applied interventions–the Heart Failure Intervention Score (HF‐IS). Background The overall efficacy of heart failure programmes has been proven in several meta‐analyses. However, the debate continues as to which components are essential in a heart failure programme to improve patient outcomes. Design Prospective cohort study of patients participating in heart failure programmes. Method Forty‐eight of 62 (77%) programmes in Australia participating in a national register of CHF‐MPs were evaluated using the HF‐IS: derived from a summed and weighted score of each intervention applied by the CHF‐MP (27 interventions overall). The CHF‐MPs were prospectively categorised as relatively low (HF‐IS

Date: 2013
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