Pilot Program to Improve Self-Management of Patients with Heart Failure by Redesigning Care Coordination

Objectives. We tested both an educational and a care coordination element of health care to examine if better disease-specific knowledge leads to successful self-management of heart failure (HF). Background. The high utilization of health care resources and poor patient outcomes associated with HF j...

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Main Authors: Jessica D. Shaw, Daniel J. O’Neal, Kris Siddharthan, Britta I. Neugaard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Nursing Research and Practice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/836921