CH Failure, WSP Care - Annals of Internal Medicine - Am Coll Physicians C hronic congestive heart failure with left ventric- ular systolic dysfunction has become a major
health care challenge, both clinically and economi- cally (1, 2). Clinically, congestive heart failure
is a complex, heterogeneous disease process that afflicts more than 4.7 million patients in ... Related articles
M SAKAKIBARA, K KONGOJI, H SAMEJIMA, K … - Internal Medicine, 1999 - Journal@rchive Object Thepurpose of this study wasto elucidate differences in readmission rates and late outcome
in outpatients with chronic heart failure treated in different clinical settings. Patients and MethodsThis
study included 65 consecutive patients whowere admitted to our CCUdue to acute heart ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
D Bello, NB Shah, ME Edep, IM Tateo, BM Massie - American Heart Journal, 1999 - Elsevier Background Heart failure (HF) is responsible for considerable mortality morbidity rates and resource
utilization. Recently, several studies have reported improved outcomes when patients are managed
by special HF clinics, but it is uncertain whether this improvement reflects differences in ... Cited by 44 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►onlinejacc.org M Ansari, M Alexander, A Tutar, D Bello, BM … - Journal of the American …, 2003 - Elsevier This was a retrospective cohort study of incident HF identified between 1996 and 1997 in a staff
model health maintenance organization. Cardiology care was defined as ≥2 visits or ≥25%
of total medical outpatient visits to cardiology. Records from a cohort of 403 patients with ... Cited by 69 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 25 versions
A Roth, I Kajiloti, I Elkayam, J Sander, M Kehati, M … - International journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier Background: Patients with chronic heart failure characteristically have multiple hospital admissions
for symptom control, deleteriously affecting their quality of life and imposing a burden on national
healthcare costs. We assessed the effect of a novel transtelephonic monitoring and follow- ... Cited by 29 - Related articles - All 9 versions
- ►bmj.com AP Davie, JJ McMurray - British Medical Journal, 1999 - pmj.bmj.com Cardiologists and generalists have been reported to diverge in terms of their self-reported use
of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, but information on their actual use of ACE
inhibitors has been lacking. In order to assess ACE inhibitor use in patients with heart ... Cited by 26 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
L Goldman - Annals of internal medicine, 1999 - Am Coll Physicians Hospitalism as a career option is likely to reinforce the emphasis of traditional medical residency
programs on inpatient care; may become an alternative area of empha- sis in many subspecialty
fellowship programs; and may even generate its own specific types of advanced training ... Cited by 47 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
GC Friesinger - JOURNAL-AMERICAN COLLEGE OF …, 1999 - Am Coll Cardio Found The last two decades have seen extraordinary changes in physicians' attitudes toward and approach
to the syndrome of congestive heart failure (CHF). Research into etiology and
pathophysiology, development of powerful diagnostic tools that provide insights into ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
KL Dahle, JS Smith, GL Ingersoll, JR Wilson - The American journal of …, 1998 - Elsevier Each year, patients with heart failure are hospitalized over 2 million times, resulting in costs of
approximately $23.1 billion, or 8.6% of total nonfederal hospital healthcare costs.[1, 2 and 3]
One potential method of decreasing these costs is to train nurse practitioners to manage ... Cited by 57 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
