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Evaluation of a nurse practitioner disease management model for chronic heart failure: a multi-site implementation
Julie Lowery1, Faith Hopp, Usha Subramanian
1Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA. julie.lowery@va.gov
Abstract:
While disease management appears to be effective in selected, small groups of CHF patients from randomized controlled trials, its effectiveness in a broader CHF patient population is not known. This prospective, quasi-experimental study compared patient outcomes under a nurse practitioner-led disease management model (intervention group) with outcomes under usual care (control group) in both primary and tertiary medical centers. The study included 969 veterans (458 intervention, 511 control) treated for CHF at six VA medical centers. Intervention patients had significantly fewer (p<0.05) CHF and all-cause admissions at one-year follow-up, and lower mortality at both one- and two-year follow-up. These data provide support for the potential effectiveness of the intervention, and suggest that the evidence from RCTs of disease management models for CHF can be translated into clinical practice, even without the benefits of a selected patient population and dedicated resources often found in RCTs.
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