Rachel Wells, MSN, RN, CNL, a second-year student in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD) program and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ...

Several interventions were undertaken: a heart failure algorithm and clinical pathway were developed, with the aim of incorporating AHCPR clinical criteria for CHF. Programs for physician CHF ...

The intervention program used in SPAN-CHF I consisted of a home visit by an experienced nurse-manager within 3 days of randomization. During this visit, which focused on dietary and medical compliance ...

Clinicians and hospitals across the nation struggle with providing and paying for optimal care for their congestive health failure (CHF) patients. However, there are opportunities to make care better.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Medical breakthroughs in recent decades have allowed heart attack survivors and other heart-disease patients to live longer. But as their hearts decline into congestive heart ...

Two University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing faculty, Associate Professor and Senior Director of the Center for Nursing Excellence at UAB Hospital and HRTSA Clinic Connie White-Williams, ...

Despite making up half of the 64 million people living with heart failure, patients with this common form have no access to ...

Carol R. Regueiro, MD, MSc, of Allegheny Health Network (AHN), explains how AHN's congestive heart failure bundle has enhanced collaboration between cardiology and primary care. She noted that the ...

An intervention of variable intensity for congestive heart failure showed some improvements but no survival effect, suggesting a tradeoff between intervention cost and intensity and survival benefit.