[Educating patients about heart failure in community hospitals: it is possible..]

Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris). 2003 Nov;52(5):329-36.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Prognosis for heart failure is linked to patient's compliance. Compliance is also dependent from patient education about his disease and treatment. Therapeutic education could be done in a community hospital but needs a lot of time. However, therapeutic education for heart failure patients becomes more and more essential in clinical practice and improves patient knowledge and implication and hospitalization duration.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Exercise Therapy
  • France
  • Heart Failure / therapy*
  • Hospitals, Community
  • Humans
  • Life Style
  • Patient Care Team
  • Patient Compliance
  • Patient Education as Topic*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Time Factors