Download or read book Heart Failure Program Proposal written by Amy L. Bothmann and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current health care system in the United States is the most expensive in the world and yet has some of the worst outcomes among developed countries. The system will not be able to keep up with the increasing financial medical needs of the population or with an adequate workforce to care for patients (Carver, 2011). Many health care institutions are piloting new programs to improve quality of care and outcomes for heart failure patients as a result of the Affordable Care Act. The programs are focusing on patient centered management and improved communication for health care providers to prevent readmissions and decrease the costs of care. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) developed a care management program for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) to reduce costs and improve quality of patient care. The program tested several models of care for those with chronic illness and this proposal includes an implementation plan for integrating care of heart failure patients. The author of this study used a literature review to gain support for heart failure managed programs. The literature review supports changes in the delivery of patient care, improved communicating between patients and medical care teams, and encourages nurses to continue to expand their roles. These changes result in improved patient quality of care with greater patient satisfaction while decreasing readmissions to hospitals and decreasing the costs of health care. Medicare is projected to save billions of dollars on potentially preventable readmissions. (DeFelice, Masucci, and McLoughlin, 2010). Hospitals are now held responsible for patient outcomes and with disease management programs they are redefining health care providing a holistic approach to patient care.
Download or read book Establishing a Heart Failure Program written by Michael McIvor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “. . . every critical examination of HF therapy in the United States has documented that we are not using all the weapons in our arsenal. We know what works, yet we are not systematically applying these proven therapies.” -- from the Introduction If you are interested in a better way to treat heart failure, this book is for you. Dr. Michael McIvor – who has taught thousands of healthcare professionals how to effectively care for patients with chronic HF through CME symposia – takes a logical, step-by-step approach to setting up and operating the kind of program that reduces hospital admissions and improves patient care. Establishing a Heart Failure Program: The Essential Guide answers the different questions posed by physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and hospital administrators, all of whom need to work as a team to achieve success. The three major sections of the book address: Taking the first steps toward building your heart failure program - developing a business plan, choosing your model of care, and making accurate financial projections Assembling the pieces of your program – managers, front line staff, and the physical facility Day-to-day operations A companion website presents forms you can download and use in your own heart failure center. Drawing from experience, Dr. McIvor helps you avoid common problems by identifying potential problems and sharing advice that has proven effective to your colleagues. He gives you the essential tools – unavailable elsewhere – to set up and maintain a heart failure program that achieves superior clinical outcomes.
Download or read book Acute Heart Failure written by Alexandre Mebazaa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, there has been a great deal of work done on chronic congestive heart failure while acute heart failure has been considered a difficult to handle and hopeless syndrome. However, in recent years acute heart failure has become a growing area of study and this is the first book to cover extensively the diagnosis and management of this complex condition. The book reflects the considerable amounts of new data reported and many new concepts which have been proposed in the last 3-4 years looking at the epidemiology, diagnostic and treatment of acute heart failure.
Download or read book Development of a Proposal to Manage Patients with Congestive Heart Failure written by Jocelyn Mojica and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incidence of congestive heart failure (CHF) is increasing in the elderly population. Despite major advances in technology and the collaborative care in managing CHF, healthcare costs continue escalate. A proposal to improve the current telehealth program in managing patients with CHF was presented to the Bay Pines Veteran Affairs and the VA Fort Myers Outpatient Clinic. This proposal included comprehensive patient education and utilization of standardized CHF treatment. Prior researches on CHF treatment modalities, and the methodology of the proposed program were presented to the VA's Research and Development Department. The VA considered this proposal a research study and recommended conduction further studies to validate effectiveness of the proposed program.
Download or read book A Heart Failure Clinic in Lebanon written by Angala Richard Massouh and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Volume 5 written by Dorairaj Prabhakaran and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardiovascular, respiratory, and related conditions cause more than 40 percent of all deaths globally, and their substantial burden is rising, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Their burden extends well beyond health effects to include significant economic and societal consequences. Most of these conditions are related, share risk factors, and have common control measures at the clinical, population, and policy levels. Lives can be extended and improved when these diseases are prevented, detected, and managed. This volume summarizes current knowledge and presents evidence-based interventions that are effective, cost-effective, and scalable in LMICs.
Download or read book Congestive Heart Failure Clinic written by Teresa L. Covington and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in medicine are occurring at a rapid rate, however, heart disease remains the number on cause of death in the United States. Early intervention saves lives. The challenge that remains is how to care for patients who survive heart attacks and develop chronic heart failure. Heart disease is now considered a terminal illness with chronic heart failure being the ultimate cause of death. Improving the quality of life for this patient population means developing new therapies to control symptoms and enable the client to maintain their life in the home. Heart failure is one of the most common causes of hospital admissions is prudent. Many communities have developed nurse run heart failure clinics. A well run clinic is fiscally sound, provides evidence based treatments, and improves quality of life. This project is directed at evaluating the feasibility of developing a nurse-run outpatient heart failure clinic at Central Health. This clinic would serve both the city of Lynchburg and the surrounding rural communities which comprise the 2,000 square miles of the Region II medical services area.
Download or read book Health Promotion in Health Care Vital Theories and Research written by Gørill Haugan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access textbook represents a vital contribution to global health education, offering insights into health promotion as part of patient care for bachelor’s and master’s students in health care (nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, radiotherapists, social care workers etc.) as well as health care professionals, and providing an overview of the field of health science and health promotion for PhD students and researchers. Written by leading experts from seven countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia, it first discusses the theory of health promotion and vital concepts. It then presents updated evidence-based health promotion approaches in different populations (people with chronic diseases, cancer, heart failure, dementia, mental disorders, long-term ICU patients, elderly individuals, families with newborn babies, palliative care patients) and examines different health promotion approaches integrated into primary care services. This edited scientific anthology provides much-needed knowledge, translating research into guidelines for practice. Today’s medical approaches are highly developed; however, patients are human beings with a wholeness of body-mind-spirit. As such, providing high-quality and effective health care requires a holistic physical-psychological-social-spiritual model of health care is required. A great number of patients, both in hospitals and in primary health care, suffer from the lack of a holistic oriented health approach: Their condition is treated, but they feel scared, helpless and lonely. Health promotion focuses on improving people’s health in spite of illnesses. Accordingly, health care that supports/promotes patients’ health by identifying their health resources will result in better patient outcomes: shorter hospital stays, less re-hospitalization, being better able to cope at home and improved well-being, which in turn lead to lower health-care costs. This scientific anthology is the first of its kind, in that it connects health promotion with the salutogenic theory of health throughout the chapters. the authors here expand the understanding of health promotion beyond health protection and disease prevention. The book focuses on describing and explaining salutogenesis as an umbrella concept, not only as the key concept of sense of coherence.
Download or read book Improving Outcomes in Heart Failure written by Debra K. Moser and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent advances have changed the way heart failure is treated and have resulted in substantial improvements in heart failure management. Improving Outcomes in Heart Failure addresses innovative ways of dealing with issues such as quality of life, treatment compliance, effective patient and family education and counseling, nonpharmacologic therapy, and new health care delivery models for improving the management of heart failure. With an interdisciplinary approach, this reference shows how heart failure outcomes and health care resource utilization can be improved significantly. Written by the editors of the distinguished Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Debra K. Moser, DNSc, RN and Barbara Riegel, DNSc, RN, CS, FAAN are well-known and nationally recognized experts in the field of cardiovascular nursing. Moser and Riegel have received numerous prestigious awards and honors and have contributed to many renowned journals on a wide variety of cardiovascular topics.
Download or read book Capstone Evidence Based Proposal written by Andrew Vale and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart Failure (HF) is a growing and increasingly expensive burden on healthcare in the United States. This incurable disease leads to multiple hospital admissions related to symptoms in the acute phase of this disease. The challenge facing healthcare today, is patients' lack of knowledge in relation to reducing the acute phases of their disease by relatively minor changes in their lifestyle. The PICOT question: Does enhanced post discharge education about effective management of HF (I) reduce the number of 30-day (T) readmissions with HF symptoms (O), in HF patients (P), when compared to standard HF education (C)? The author believes there is enough evidence to support it and this proposal reflects this belief. Traditionally, discharge instructions are given to all patients, including Heart Failure patients, usually on discharge day. These instructions are concise and comprehensive, yet, because they are not reinforced, they are not retained. This leads to readmission, with the same symptoms of exacerbation as before. The change, proposed by the author is designed to reduce HF readmission rates, through the appointment of HF navigators, the creation of a HF team and through extended patient follow-up post discharge. To test the effect of this change, every patient discharged will be given questionnaires to evaluate their quality of life and their confidence in managing their Heart failure.
Download or read book The Artificial Heart written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant medical event is expected in 1992: the first human use of a fully implantable, long-term cardiac assist device. This timely volume reviews the artificial heart program-and in particular, the National Institutes of Health's major investment-raising important questions. The volume includes: Consideration of the artificial heart versus heart transplantation and other approaches to treating end-stage heart disease, keeping in mind the different outcomes and costs of these treatments. A look at human issues, including the number of people who may require the artificial heart, patient quality of life, and other ethical and societal questions. Examination of how this technology's use can be targeted most appropriately. Attention to achieving access to this technology for all those who can benefit from it. The committee also offers three mechanisms to aid in allocating research and development funds.
Download or read book A Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke written by United States. Department of Health and Human Services and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knowledge Assessment of Patient Heart Failure in Association with Hospital Length of Stay and 30 Day Readmission written by James Richards and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statement of Problem: The research reviewed for the grant proposal project, shows inconclusive associations between patient's heart failure knowledge and health care utilization. The purpose of this grant proposal is to fund a pilot study that will help to understand the association between patient heart failure knowledge, the independent variable, and health care utilization as measured by the dependent variables hospital length of stay (LOS) and 30-day readmission. Understanding this association, be it positive or negative will help to facilitate subsequent research directed at theory based individualized interventions. These interventions will be directed at self-care maintenance, self-care management, and self-care confidence, which are hypnotized with patient engagement to improve health outcomes and decrease health care utilization for heart failure patients. Sources of Data: For this grant proposal project, the Self-Care Heart Failure Index will be the tool to assess patient heart failure knowledge. The patient's knowledge will be scored in the areas of self-care maintenance, self-care management, and self-care confidence. A score greater than 70 is considered significant in patient heart failure knowledge. Using Person's r correlation, the positive or negative associations between patient scores on the SCHFI, LOS, and 30-day readmission will be determined. Multi-variable linear regression will be used to determine the impact of confounding variables on length of stay and 30-day readmission.
Download or read book Best Care at Lower Cost written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Best Care at Lower Cost explains that inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness. According to this report, the knowledge and tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve continuous improvement and better quality care at a lower cost. The costs of the system's current inefficiency underscore the urgent need for a systemwide transformation. About 30 percent of health spending in 2009-roughly $750 billion-was wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems. Moreover, inefficiencies cause needless suffering. By one estimate, roughly 75,000 deaths might have been averted in 2005 if every state had delivered care at the quality level of the best performing state. This report states that the way health care providers currently train, practice, and learn new information cannot keep pace with the flood of research discoveries and technological advances. About 75 million Americans have more than one chronic condition, requiring coordination among multiple specialists and therapies, which can increase the potential for miscommunication, misdiagnosis, potentially conflicting interventions, and dangerous drug interactions. Best Care at Lower Cost emphasizes that a better use of data is a critical element of a continuously improving health system, such as mobile technologies and electronic health records that offer significant potential to capture and share health data better. In order for this to occur, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, IT developers, and standard-setting organizations should ensure that these systems are robust and interoperable. Clinicians and care organizations should fully adopt these technologies, and patients should be encouraged to use tools, such as personal health information portals, to actively engage in their care. This book is a call to action that will guide health care providers; administrators; caregivers; policy makers; health professionals; federal, state, and local government agencies; private and public health organizations; and educational institutions.
Download or read book Heart Failure written by Freda Brock and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rate of heart failure is increasing and affecting millions of people in the United States. Congestive heart failure (CHF) can be a very debilitating disease if the proper care and education is not provided. There are numerous documented peer reviewed studies which introduce heart failure as a major problem that requires adequate disease management and interventions. These studies address different techniques and modalities that are useful in the management and care of heart failure patients. When patients do not have the correct information and understanding of self-care activities or the knowledge to properly care for themselves they exhibit a greater chance to be readmitted to the hospital. These admission are costly and often reimbursement does not exist. Self-care deficits are displayed by many heart failure patients who have not received proper education to manage their care. This population of patients requires care and treatment that is provided on a continuous bases and monitored in an effective time frame to prevent exacerbation of their disease. Studies exist which indicate that inpatient readmission rates can be reduced significantly by properly educating these patients. Also contributing to decreased readmission rates is the active enrollment and participation of these patients in a heart failure disease management program. Improved functional capacity and quality of life are potential positives outcomes that are related to the implementation of an effective education plan for these patients. Adequate education must be provided to heart failure patients during their inpatient admission. Nurses play a key role and are instrumental in the care of this population of patients. A complete implementation for a proposed solution that has been researched through evidenced based research and practice is needed in order to address the proposed problem and obtain optimal outcomes. An effective dissemination plan should be utilized which circulates valuable information to all stakeholders.
Download or read book A Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heart Failure written by Howard Eisen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensively covers everything from pathophysiology to the evaluation of patients presenting with heart failure to medical management, device therapy, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support, and include relevant cardiac imaging studies such as echocardiograms and magnetic resonance imaging studies which could be seen in their entirety as well as pathology slides, hemodynamic tracings and videos of cardiac surgery such as heart transplants and ventricular assist device implantation. Finally, the book would have videos of patients with heart failure, heart transplants or ventricular assist devices, describing their clinical presentation and experiences. It is structured so that it can be used as a guide by physicians studying for the general Cardiology or Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantations Boards.
