Success of a multidisciplinary heart failure clinic for initiation and up-titration of key therapeutic agents

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 7, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 405-410

  Jain, Ajay ^a   Mills, Peter ^a   Nunn, Laurence M ^a   Butler, Jane ^a   Luddington, Lisa ^a   Ross, Valerie ^a   Cliffe, Paraic ^a   Ranjadayalan, Kulasagaram ^a   Timmis, Adam D ^a,b  

^a BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug treatment; Heart failure; Heart failure clinics; National Service Framework; Nurse care management

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BISOPROLOL; CANDESARTAN; CAPTOPRIL; CARVEDILOL; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; IRBESARTAN; LISINOPRIL; LOSARTAN; METOPROLOL; PERINDOPRIL; RAMIPRIL; RANITIDINE; SIMVASTATIN; SPIRONOLACTONE; VALSARTAN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NURSE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PHARMACIST; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TITRIMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHARMACISTS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RECEPTORS, ANGIOTENSIN; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 13844267824     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejheart.2004.09.009     Document Type: Article

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