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Randomised controlled trial of specialist nurse intervention in heart failure
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Objectives: To determine whether specialist nurse intervention improves outcome in patients with chronic heart failure. Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: Acute medical admissions unit in a teaching hospital. Participants: 165 patients admitted with heart failure due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction. The intervention started before discharge and continued thereafter with home visits for up to 1 year. Main outcome measures: Time to first event analysis of death from all causes or readmission to hospital with worsening heart failure. Results: 31 patients (37%) in the intervention group died or were readmitted with heart failure compared with 45 (53%) in the usual care group (hazard ratio=0.61, 95% confidence interval 0.33 to 0.96).Compared with usual care, patients in the intervention group had fewer readmissions for any reason (86 v 114, P=0.018), fewer admissions for heart failure (19 v 45, P<0.001) and spent fewer days in hospital for heart failure (mean 3.43 v 7.46 days, P=0.0051). Conclusions: Specially trained nurses can improve the outcome of patients admitted to hospital with heart failure. What is already known on this topic: Studies have suggested that nurse intervention may reduce readmission in patients with heart failure What this study adds: Home based intervention from nurses reduces readmissions for worsening heart failure Regular contact to review treatment and patient education are likely to contribute to this effect
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- Blue, L., Lang, E., McMurray, J. J. V., Davie, A. P., McDonagh, T. A., Murdoch, D. R., Petrie, M. C., Connolly, E., Norrie, J., Round, C. E., Ford, I., & Morrison, C. E.
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- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2001-09-29
- Volume
- 323
- Issue
- 7315
- Pages
- 715-718
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- 0007-1447 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- 1468-5833
- OpenAlex
- W1994299742
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- 600
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 26.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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