Key result
Proactive outpatient diuretic management aims to reduce HF hospitalizations driven by recurrent congestion despite GDMT.
Why the study?
Recurrent congestion remains a major driver of HF-related acute care utilization despite guideline-directed medical therapy.
Does higher outpatient diuretic optimization intensity reduce heart failure hospitalizations in patients enrolled in a heart failure navigator program?
Observational (n=38)
Does higher outpatient diuretic optimization intensity reduce heart failure hospitalizations in patients enrolled in a heart failure navigator program?
Proactive outpatient oral diuretic optimization through a navigator program is associated with reduced heart failure hospitalizations.
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Supports proactive outpatient diuretic titration in HF to avert hospitalizations; extends GDMT by targeting residual congestion.
BACKGROUND: Recurrent congestion remains a major driver of heart failure (HF)-related acute care utilization despite guideline-directed medical therapy. PROJECT RATIONALE: The Congestive Heart Failure Navigator program was developed to support early recognition of worsening HF and proactive HF optimization. This study evaluated whether higher outpatient diuretic optimization intensity was associated with reduced HF hospitalizations. PROJECT SUMMARY: This retrospective quality improvement study evaluated patients enrolled in the Congestive Heart Failure Navigator program during 2025. Temporal associations between prior-month oral diuretic optimization and HF hospitalizations were analyzed using regression models. The program managed a mean of 54 patients monthly, with hospitalization rates remaining low (0-9.4 per 100 patients). Higher outpatient diuretic optimization intensity was associated with fewer subsequent HF hospitalizations (incidence rate ratio: ≈0.94; P ≈ 0.046). In a pre-post analysis (n = 38), HF hospitalizations declined from 34.2% to 18.4%. TAKE-HOME MESSAGE: Higher-intensity outpatient oral diuretic optimization may represent a scalable early congestion management strategy associated with reduced HF hospitalizations.
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Iqbal et al. (2026) conducted an observational in Heart failure (n=38). Higher outpatient diuretic optimization intensity vs. Pre-intervention period was evaluated on Heart failure hospitalizations (IRR ≈0.94, p=≈0.046). Higher outpatient diuretic optimization intensity was associated with fewer heart failure hospitalizations (IRR ≈0.94; P≈0.046), declining from 34.2% pre-intervention to 18.4%.
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