Do multidisciplinary measures reduce rehospitalization for heart failure in the elderly?
Over half of heart failure readmissions in the elderly are preventable, emphasizing the importance of multidisciplinary care, patient education, and home-based care.
Multiple rehospitalization for heart failure is a challenge for the elderly, but 55.5% of these readmissions are preventable. Poor drug compliance and pulmonary infections were the most common preventable participants. Multidisciplinary measures involving patient education, home based care, and physician training will reduce the number of hospitalizations for heart failure in the elderly.
Ogbemudia et al. (Sun,) studied this question.