Does care at a multidisciplinary specialized congestive heart failure outpatient clinic reduce hospital readmissions and improve quality of life in patients with congestive heart failure?
Multidisciplinary disease management strategies for congestive heart failure reduce hospital readmissions, improve quality of life, and are associated with improved survival when integrated with similar trials.
Compared with usual care, care at a multidisciplinary specialized congestive heart failure outpatient clinic reduced the number of hospital readmissions and hospital days and improved quality of life. When our results are integrated with those from other, similar trials, multidisciplinary disease management strategies for congestive heart failure are associated with clinically worthwhile improvements in survival.
Anique Ducharme (Mon,) studied this question.