PATIENT KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE EDUCATION AFTER DISCHARGE
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Impact of Congestive Heart Failure Discharge Planning on Congestive Heart Failure Re-Admission Rates
Background: Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is the most common diagnosis accounting for more healthcare costs than any diagnosis. CHF readmissions contribute significantly to this expenditure. Quality of care in heart failure is linked to process based performance measures. This study evaluated the relationship between adherence to performance metrics and 30 day readmission rates. Methods: This ...
متن کاملCONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN CHILDREN: A SURVEY OF 114 PATIENTS
During a period of four years between June, IS, 1988 to June, IS, 1992 one hundred and fourteen patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) were admitted to the pediatric department of Taleghani General Hospital. During the above period, 192 patients with heart disease were hospitalized at this department and CHF was the cause of admission in 59.4% of them. Congenital heart disease (CHO) w...
متن کاملHospital discharge plan for patients with congestive heart failure.
This integrative review investigates how nurses plan the hospital discharge of patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) since an inadequate discharge plan and patients' subsequent non-adherence to instruction provided upon discharge are indicated as potential factors for re-hospitalization. A total of 24 papers were found in a search carried out in the LILACS and MEDLINE databases between 2...
متن کاملQuality of life and social support in congestive heart failure patients and healthy people
Introduction: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the most important chronic diseases in the ‎world that these patients are faced with various physical and psychological stressful factors which ‎leads to decreasing quality of life. Social support by all sources can lead to decreasing problems in ‎CHF patients and increasing quality of life in them Objective: The aim of...
متن کاملReadability Assessment of Online Patient Education Material on Congestive Heart Failure
BACKGROUND Online health information is being used more ubiquitously by the general population. However, this information typically favors only a small percentage of readers, which can result in suboptimal medical outcomes for patients. OBJECTIVE The readability of online patient education materials regarding the topic of congestive heart failure was assessed through six readability assessmen...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Cardiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0828-282X
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2014.07.652