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January 1, 2009Health Affairs

What Works In Chronic Care Management: The Case Of Heart Failure

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Why the study?

Do heart failure care management programs using multi-disciplinary teams and in-person communication reduce hospital readmissions and readmission days compared to routine care in patients with heart failure?

Population

Patients with heart failure (pooled from 10 randomized clinical trials)

Comparison

Heart failure care management programs using… vs Routine care

Design

Meta-analysis

Authors

JSJulie SochalskiTJTiny JaarsmaHKHarlan M. Krumholz

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Overview

Supports adoption of multi-disciplinary in-person HF programs to cut readmissions; confirms benefits across care management strategies.

Structured PICO

Do heart failure care management programs using multi-disciplinary teams and in-person communication reduce hospital readmissions and readmission days compared to routine care in patients with heart failure?

P
Population
Patients with heart failure (pooled from 10 randomized clinical trials)
I
Intervention
Heart failure care management programs using multi-disciplinary teams and in-person communication
C
Comparator
Routine care
O
Outcome
Hospital readmissions and readmission dayshard clinical

Heart failure care management programs utilizing multi-disciplinary teams and in-person communication significantly reduce hospital readmissions compared to routine care.

Cite This Study

Sochalski et al. (2009) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a10776f01be78fe8160ea65https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.28.1.179
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