Applying Heart Failure Management to Improve Health Outcomes: But WHICH One?

Card Fail Rev. 2017 Nov;3(2):113-115. doi: 10.15420/cfr.2017:11:1.

Abstract

We report on our learning from many years of research testing the value of nurse-led, multidisciplinary, home-based management of heart failure. We discuss and highlight the key challenges we have experienced in testing this model of care relative to alternatives and evolving patient population. Accordingly, we propose a pragmatic approach to adapt current models of care to meet the needs of increasingly complex (and costly) patients with multimorbidity.

Keywords: Heart failure; disease management; frailty; home-based intervention; multimorbidity; nurse-led intervention.