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[Educating patients about heart failure in community hospitals: it is possible...]
P Jourdain1, F Funck, M Bellorini
1Unité thérapeutique d'insuffisance cardiaque et service de cardiologie, centre hospitalier René-Dubos, 6, avenue d'Ile-de-France, 95300 Pontoise, France. patrick.jourdain@ch-pontoise.fr
Annales De Cardiologie Et D'Angeiologie
|January 13, 2004
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.