Non‐compliance in patients with heart failure; how can we manage it?

MHL van der Wal, T Jaarsma… - … journal of heart failure, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
patients. Although there are reviews on compliance in cardiovascular disease 11 … heart
failure 12, our review focuses more on the different aspects of compliance with the heart failure

Monitoring clinical changes in patients with heart failure: a comparison of methods

J Spertus, E Peterson, MW Conard, PA Heidenreich… - American heart …, 2005 - Elsevier
… However, this study suggests that it may not be as useful in serially tracking the status of
a patient's heart failure over time. Although future investigations are needed to confirm these …

Risk prediction in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and analysis

K Rahimi, D Bennett, N Conrad, TM Williams, J Basu… - JACC: Heart Failure, 2014 - jacc.org
Objectives : This study sought to review the literature for risk prediction models in patients
with heart failure and to identify the most consistently reported independent predictors of risk …

Quality of life in patients with heart failure: ask the patients

S Heo, TA Lennie, C Okoli, DK Moser - Heart & lung, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) is a progressive clinical condition that results in … Helping
patients maintain optimal QOL is essential. QOL reflects patients' subjective perceptions …

Telemonitoring in patients with heart failure

SI Chaudhry, JA Mattera, JP Curtis… - … England Journal of …, 2010 - Mass Medical Soc
… We randomly assigned 1653 patients who had recently been hospitalized for heart failure
to undergo either telemonitoring (826 patients) or usual care (827 patients). Telemonitoring …

Gender differences in patients with heart failure

A Strömberg, J Mårtensson - European Journal of …, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
… Table 3 Non-randomised trials evaluating nurse-led or co-ordinated, out-patient heart failure
management programs with special emphasis on patient education and intensified follow-…

Factors influencing the predictive power of models for predicting mortality and/or heart failure hospitalization in patients with heart failure

W Ouwerkerk, AA Voors, AH Zwinderman - JACC: Heart Failure, 2014 - jacc.org
… mortality, heart failure hospitalization, or both… patients with chronic and acute heart failure.
Prediction of mortality and in particular heart failure hospitalization in patients with heart failure

Co‐morbidities in patients with heart failure: an analysis of the European Heart Failure Pilot Survey

VM van Deursen, R Urso, C Laroche… - … of heart failure, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
patients with >5 co-morbidities are responsible for 81% of all hospital days experienced by
all heart failure patients… in a broad spectrum of patients with chronic heart failure. We focus on …

Effects of vesnarinone on morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure

AM Feldman, MR Bristow, WW Parmley… - … England Journal of …, 1993 - Mass Medical Soc
… Our results demonstrate that in patients with symptomatic congestive heart failure refractory
… risk of death from any cause or worsening heart failure and a 62 percent reduction in the risk …

Hospitalization of patients with heart failure. A population-based study

MR Cowie, KF Fox, DA Wood, C Metcalfe… - European heart …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
… to heart failure[1] and in the USA heart failure is the most common diagnostic group among
hospitalized patients … The number of hospitalizations related to heart failure has been rising …