Updates in heart failure 30-day readmission prevention

D Goldgrab, K Balakumaran, MJ Kim, SR Tabtabai - Heart failure reviews, 2019 - Springer
Heart failure (HF) and HF 30-day readmission rates have been a major focus of efforts to
reduce health care cost in the recent era. Since the implementation of the Affordable Care …

Adherence to self-care recommendations and associated factors among adult heart failure patients. From the patients' point of view

MA Seid, OA Abdela, EG Zeleke - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Nowadays, heart failure (HF) related morbidity and mortality rate is increasing
globally. Younger populations happen to be more affected by HF in sub-Saharan African …

Pharmacy‐based interdisciplinary intervention for patients with chronic heart failure: results of the PHARM‐CHF randomized controlled trial

M Schulz, N Griese‐Mammen, SD Anker… - European journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Medication non‐adherence is frequent and is associated with high morbidity and
mortality in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). We investigated whether an …

Medication adherence: a review and lessons for developing countries

A Omotosho, P Ayegba - 2019 - learntechlib.org
Most of the time, complete adherence to prescribed medication is a big step towards
recovery from either chronic or acute diseases, but patients often are unaware of the …

Medication management performance and associated cognitive correlates in healthy older adults and older adults with aMCI

CA Sumida, TT Vo, EJ Van Etten… - Archives of Clinical …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objective Difficulties managing medications, particularly among older adults experiencing
cognitive deficits, is an important contributing factor to medication nonadherence that may …

Impact of multi-disciplinary treatment strategy on systolic heart failure outcome

SM Chen, YN Fang, LY Wang, MK Wu, PJ Wu… - BMC cardiovascular …, 2019 - Springer
Background Patients with reduced ejection fraction have high rates of mortality and
readmission after hospitalization for heart failure. In Taiwan, heart failure disease …

Comparison of different strategies to measure medication adherence via claims data in patients with chronic heart failure

P Ihle, K Krueger, I Schubert… - Clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Medication adherence correlates with morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic heart
failure (CHF), but is difficult to assess. We conducted a retrospective methodological cohort …

Therapeutic advances in the management of acute decompensated heart failure

EL Antohi, AP Ambrosy, SP Collins… - American journal of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is the most common presenting
phenotype of acute heart failure (AHF). The main goal of this article was to review the …

Association between process performance measures and 1-year mortality among patients with incident heart failure: a Danish nationwide study

A Nakano, N Vinter, K Egstrup… - … Journal-Quality of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Aims To examine the association between fulfilment of performance measures supported by
clinical guidelines recommendations and 1-year mortality among patients with incident heart …

Rationale and design of EMPOWER, a pragmatic randomized trial of automated hovering in patients with congestive heart failure

SJ Mehta, KG Volpp, DA Asch… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Congestive heart failure is a major cause of morbidity, mortality, and cost.
Disease management programs have shown promise but lack firm evidence of effectiveness …