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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Complexity of management and health outcomes in a prospective cohort study of 573 heart failure patients in Australia: does more equal less? |
Author: | Driscoll, A. Tonkin, A. Stewart, A. Worrall-Carter, L. Thompson, D. Riegel, B. Hare, D. Davidson, P. Mulvany, C. Stewart, S. |
Citation: | Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2013; 22(11-12):1629-1638 |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
ISSN: | 0962-1067 1365-2702 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Andrea Driscoll, Andrew Tonkin, Andrew Stewart, Linda Worrall‐Carter, David R Thompson, Barbara Riegel, David L Hare, Patricia M Davidson, Christine Mulvany, Simon Stewart |
Abstract: | AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To compare the efficacy of chronic heart failure management programmes (CHF-MPs) according to a scoring algorithm used to quantify the level of applied interventions-the Heart Failure Intervention Score (HF-IS). BACKGROUND: The overall efficacy of heart failure programmes has been proven in several meta-analyses. However, the debate continues as to which components are essential in a heart failure programme to improve patient outcomes. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study of patients participating in heart failure programmes. METHOD: Forty-eight of 62 (77%) programmes in Australia participating in a national register of CHF-MPs were evaluated using the HF-IS: derived from a summed and weighted score of each intervention applied by the CHF-MP (27 interventions overall). The CHF-MPs were prospectively categorised as relatively low (HF-IS < 190 - n = 39 programmes & 407 patients) or high (HF-IS ≥ 190 - n = 9 programmes & 166 patients) in complexity. Six-month morbidity and mortality rates in 573 consecutively recruited patients with systolic dysfunction and in New York Heart Association Class II-IV were prospectively examined. RESULTS: Patients exposed to CHF-MPs with a high HF-IS had a lower rate of unplanned, all-cause hospitalisation (n = 24, 14% vs. n = 102, 25%) compared with CHF-MPs with a low HF-IS within six months. On an adjusted basis, CHF-MPs with a high HF-IS were associated with a reduced risk of unplanned hospitalisation and/or death within six months and remained event-free longer. CONCLUSION: High complexity CHF-MPs applying more evidence-based interventions are associated with a higher event-free survival over six months. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: The HF-IS is an easy-to-use evidence-based tool to assist programme coordinators to improve the quality of their heart failure programme which may also improve patient outcomes. |
Keywords: | Disease management; heart failure; heart failure programmes; quality score |
Rights: | © 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
DOI: | 10.1111/jocn.12073 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12073 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Nursing publications |
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