Heart Failure in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care: Evidence and Strategies to Improve Transitions, Clinical Care, and Quality of Life

Heart Failure in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care: Evidence and Strategies to Improve Transitions, Clinical Care, and Quality of Life

Nazir A; Smucker W D

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

2015

2015-10

Heart failure (HF) is highly prevalent among older patients in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). HF outcomes for SNF patients suffer because of many factors, including staff training, lack of physician availability, and failure to implement evidence-based care. AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has recently updated the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Heart Failure Management in SNFs. This review supplements the Guidelines with a robust focus on best practices for transitional care, symptom management, treatment and monitoring, and palliative care in patients with HF. (C) 2015 AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.

2013 accf/aha guideline; association; cognitive impairment; discharge education; Emergency department; Geriatrics & Gerontology; Heart failure; hospitalized-patients; older patients; palliative care; post-acute care; scientific statement; skilled nursing facilities; task-force; transitional care

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