Key result
Retrospective medical record review demonstrated a lack of nursing attentiveness to teaching self-monitoring weight gain to hospitalized heart failure patients.
Why the study?
What is the rate of discharge instruction related to self-weight monitoring provided to elderly heart failure patients?
Population
Patients 65 years and older with an ICD-9 diagnostic code of heart failure upon discharge from an acute care…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Documentation gaps in HF discharge teaching persist; hypothesis-generating for targeted nursing interventions and outcomes research.
Observational
No
What is the rate of discharge instruction related to self-weight monitoring provided to elderly heart failure patients?
There is a significant gap in nursing documentation and teaching regarding self-weight monitoring for elderly heart failure patients at discharge.
Lesperance et al. (2005) conducted an observational in Heart failure. Discharge instruction related to self-weight monitoring was evaluated on Provision of discharge instruction related to self-weight monitoring. Retrospective medical record review demonstrated a lack of nursing attentiveness to teaching self-monitoring weight gain to hospitalized heart failure patients.
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