Download or read book A Review of Primary Care Management of Chronic Heart Failure in Two Towns of Rural South Australia written by Katie Lee Hondow and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chronic Heart Failure Management in Rural Primary Care written by Erin Kreifels and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: Heart failure has been identified as a diagnosis associated with significant morbidity and mortality with inconsistent outcomes. As of October 1st, 2012 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began reducing payments to penalize hospitals for excessive heart failure readmissions and publicly reporting readmission rates. The rationale for the reduction in payments is that many heart failure related admissions could have been prevented through improved outpatient management. In 2013, Medicare reimbursement cuts were applied to critical access hospitals. This most recent decrease in reimbursement to critical access hospitals paired with lack of reimbursement for heart failure related 30-day hospital readmissions provided the basis for implementing a heart failure management program. Participants: Thirteen adult patients, over the age of 19, voluntarily participated in the heart failure management program in a rural primary care clinic located in the Midwest. Methods: The project was a quality improvement design. A chronic heart failure management program was implemented utilizing the American Heart Association and the Institute for Health Care Improvement guidelines for heart failure management. Educational resources with monitoring logs for weights and symptoms were provided to each patient at the initial visit. Nursing staff filled out a heart failure flow sheet at each heart failure related visit, and each patient who presented was then contacted one month from his/her initial visit date to discuss patient concerns. Results: Of the 13 individuals who presented for the initial visit, 11 had the flow record completed. One patient came in for subsequent visits due to changes in medications and follow-up. The flow record was filled out entirely on these 2 subsequent visits. There were two heart failure admissions during the 12-week implementation period and neither were readmissions. Both patients followed up within one week of hospital discharge. There were no heart failure readmissions during the 12-week implementation period. Discussion: The findings of this project support the long-term feasibility of a chronic heart failure management program. Key words: heart failure, chronic heart failure management, heart failure management programs, heart failure management in primary care.
Download or read book Heart Failure E Book written by G. Michael Felker and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lead editor of Braunwald's Heart Disease, Dr. Douglas L. Mann, and nationally and internationally recognized heart failure expert Dr. G. Michael Felker, bring you the latest, definitive state-of-the art information on heart failure in this outstanding Braunwald's companion volume. Heart Failure, 3rd Edition keeps you current with recent developments in the field, improved patient management strategies, and new drug therapies and implantable devices that will make a difference in your patients' lives and your practice.
Download or read book Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 2454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
Download or read book Chronic Heart Failure Beyond City Limits written by Robyn Anne Clark and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research was to determine, in a series of themed studies, the population distribution, management and potential information technology solutions for CHF in rural and remote Australia.
Download or read book Heart Failure A Companion to Braunwald s Heart Disease E Book written by G. Michael Felker and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive, Heart Failure, 4th Edition, provides the clinically relevant information you need to effectively manage and treat patients with this complex cardiovascular problem. This fully revised companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease helps you make the most of new drug therapies such as angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitors (ARNIs), recently improved implantable devices, and innovative patient management strategies. Led by internationally recognized heart failure experts Dr. G. Michael Felker and Dr. Douglas Mann, this outstanding reference gives health care providers the knowledge to improve clinical outcomes in heart failure patients. - Focuses on a clinical approach to treating heart failure, resulting from a broad variety of cardiovascular problems. - Covers the most recent guidelines and protocols, including significant new updates to ACC, AHA, and HFSA guidelines. - Covers key topics such as biomarkers and precision medicine in heart failure and new data on angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitors (ARNIs). - Contains four new chapters: Natriuretic Peptides in Heart Failure; Amyloidosis as a Cause of Heart Failure; HIV and Heart Failure; and Neuromodulation in Heart Failure. - Covers the pathophysiological basis for the development and progression of heart failure. - Serves as a definitive resource to prepare for the ABIM's Heart Failure board exam. - 2016 British Medical Association Award: First Prize, Cardiology (3rd Edition).
Download or read book Management of Heart Failure in the Primary Care Setting in Rural and Underserved Areas written by Katelyn Erickson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Perspectives on Primary Care Research written by Felicity Goodyear-Smith and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Perspectives on Primary Care Research examines how the evidence base from primary care research can strengthen health care services and delivery, tackle the growing burden of disease, improve quality and safety, and increase a person-centred focus to health care. Demonstrating the inter-professional nature of the discipline, the book also features a section on cross-nation organisations and primary care networks supporting research. National perspectives are offered from researchers in 20 countries that form part of the World Organization of Family Doctors, providing case histories from research-rich to resource-poor nations that illustrate the range of research development and capacity building. This book argues the importance of primary care research, especially to policy makers, decision makers and funders in informing best practice, training primary health care providers and achieving equitable distribution of care.
Download or read book Trial of a Family based Education Program for Patients with Heart Failure and Their Carers in Rural Thailand written by Nittaya Srisuk and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduction: Heart failure is a major public health problem, affecting over 26 million people worldwide. It is associated with a high rate of mortality, symptom burden and diminished quality of life. Best practice guidelines for the management of chronic heart failure recommend that patients and carers/family members are educated about heart failure self-care. Effective heart failure self-care has the potential to improve health outcomes. Studies conducted in Thailand addressing heart failure self-care are limited and none have investigated the potential benefits of education programs on the health outcomes of both parties within the dyad: the patient with heart failure and their carer.Aims: The primary aim of this research was to examine the effectiveness of a family-based education program for patients with heart failure and their carers in rural Thailand. The research comprises a series of studies, each with specific aims: i) to investigate current heart failure family-based education provision – a global review, ii) to develop a family-based heart failure education program, and iii) to evaluate the effectiveness of this program in rural Thailand.Methods: After completing a systematic review of the literature, a study protocol for development and evaluation of a culturally specific family-based education program was developed. A randomised controlled trial was then conducted in rural Thailand to examine the effectiveness of the program. For patients, the primary outcome was heart failure knowledge as measured by the Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge Scale (DHFKS). The main outcome for carers was perceived control over managing patients’ heart failure symptoms as measured by the Control Attitudes Scale-Revised (CAS-R). Secondary outcomes for patients were self-care as measured by the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index (SCHFI) and health-related quality of life as measured by the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure (MLHF) questionnaire. For carers, additional outcomes were heart failure knowledge as measured by the Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge Scale (DHFKS) and health-related quality of life as measured by the Short Form 12-Item (SF-12) Health Survey. In total, 100 dyads from two public hospitals in Thailand were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio in blocks of 10 to the intervention (family-based education program) or usual care (control) group. The education group received usual care in addition to a family-based education program, which consisted of face-to-face education and counselling sessions, a manual, a DVD, and telephone support. Data were collected at baseline, three months, and six months.Results: The systematic review identified six trials reported in nine papers. A dearth of HF studies was found that specifically developed and evaluated an education intervention for both patient and carer. There was a wide variation in the quality of the studies.A family-based HF education program, underpinned by adult learning theory, was developed in strict adherence to CONSORT guidelines. This comprised a culturally specific heart failure manual and DVD that were reviewed for content and cultural validity by a Thai cardiologist and heart failure nurses; minimal changes were recommended.Patients and carers in the education group (those who received the heart failure manual and DVD) had higher knowledge scores than the usual care group at three and six months (p
Download or read book Current Bibliography of Epidemiology written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly, with annual cumulations. Comprehensive, current index to periodical medical literature intended for use of practitioners, investigators, and other workers in community medicine who are concerned with the etiology, prevention, and control of disease. Citations are derived from MEDLARS tapes for Index medicus of corresponding date. Arrangement by 2 sections, i.e., Selected subject headings, and Diseases, organisms, vaccines. No author index.
Download or read book Heart Failure written by Paul H. Tanser and published by Montréal : Grosvenor House Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Systematic Approach to Chronic Heart Failure Care written by National Heart Foundation of Australia and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Management of Chronic Disease in Primary Care Settings written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for the Prevention Detection and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in Australia 2006 written by National Heart Foundation of Australia and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Overall, CHF occurs in 1.5-2.0% of Australians. However, the overall pattern of CHF shows that its incidence and prevalence rises markedly with age. The point prevalence of CHF has been about 1% in people aged 50-59 years, 10% in people aged 85 years or more. It is one of the most common reasons for hospital admission and GP consultation in people aged 70 and older"--P. 10.
Download or read book Living Every Day with My Heart Failure written by National Heart Foundation of Australia and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living every day with my heart failure is a resource for Indigenous people with chronic heart failure (CHF). It features culturally and clinically appropriate health information to help Indigenous people with CHF better manage their condition.
Download or read book Chronic Heart Failure written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease written by Dr. Scott Dougherty and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-02-22 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease is a concise, yet comprehensive, clinical resource highlighting must-know information on rheumatic heart disease and acute rheumatic fever from a global perspective. Covering the major issues dominating the field, this practical resource presents sufficient detail for a deep and thorough understanding of the latest treatment options, potential complications, and disease management strategies to improve patient outcomes. - Divided into four distinct sections for ease of navigation: Acute Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatic Heart Disease, Population-Based Strategies for Disease Control, and Acute and Emergency Presentations. - International editors and chapter authors ensure a truly global perspective. - Covers all clinical aspects, including epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnosis, management, and treatment. - Includes key topics on population-based measures for disease control for effective primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. - Consolidates today's available information and guidance into a single, convenient resource.
