Specialist clinics for reducing emergency admissions in patients with heart failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Heart

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 233-239

  Thomas, Rebecca ^a   Huntley, Alyson ^b   Mann, Mala ^a   Huws, Dyfed ^a   Paranjothy, Shantini ^a   Elwyn, Glyn ^a   Purdy, Sarah ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SPECIALIST CLINIC; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84873818516     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302313     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. Vinson JM, Rich MW, Sperry JC, et al. Early readmission of elderly patients with congestive heart failure. J Am Geriatr Soc 1990;38:1290-5.
2. Michalsen A, Konig G, Thimme E. Preventable causative factors leading to hospital admission with decompensated heart failure. Heart 1998;1998:437-41.
3. Tsuyuki RT, Mckelvie RS, Arnold JM, et al. Acute precipitants of congestive heart failure exacerbations. Arch Intern Med 2001;161:2337-42.
4. NHS Information Centre. Hospital Episode Statistics: Headline Figures. 2010. http://www.hesonline.nhs.uk/Ease/servlet/ContentServer?siteID= 1937&categoryID=193 (accessed 24 Feb 2012).
5. National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). Chronic Heart Failure: Management of Chrnoic Heart Failure in Adults in Primary And Secondary Care. 2010 NICE, London, UK.
6. Abraham WT, Bristow MR. Specialised centers for heart failure management. Circulation 1997;96:2755-7.
7. NHS Wales Informatics Service. Annual Patient Episode Database for Wales (PEDW) Data Tables: Headline Figures, Welsh Providers. 2010. http://www.infoandstats. wales.nhs.uk/Documents/869/Headlines-Trusts-English.pdf (accessed 24 Feb 2012).
8. OECD. List of OECD Member Countries-Ratification of the Convention on the OECD. http://www.oecd.org/document/58/0, en-2649-201185-1889402-1-1-1-1, 00.html, 3746 (accessed 24 Feb 2012).
9. Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group (EPOC). http://epoc. cochrane.org/sites/epoc.cochrane.org/files/uploads/ MEDLINEstudyfilterEPOC.doc (accessed 6 Dec 2011).
10. Higgins JPT, Altman DG, eds. Chapter 8: assessing risk of bias in included studies. In: Higgins JPT, Green S, eds. Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Chichester: John Wiley and sons, 2008.
11. The Cochrane Collaboration. In: Higgins JPT, Green S, eds. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. John Wiley & Sons; 2009, Chichister, UK.
12. The Cochrane Collaboration open learning material. Further issues in meta-analysis-Module 14 other types of data. 2002; http://www.cochrane-net.org/ openlearning/html/mod14-3.htm
13. Capomolla S, Febo O, Ceresa M, et al. Cost/utility ratio in chronic heart failure: comparison between heart failure management program delivered by day-hospital and usual care. J Am Coll Cardiol 2002;40:1259-66.
14. Blue L, Lang E, McMurray JJ, et al. Randomised controlled trial of specialist nurse intervention in heart failure. BMJ 2001;323:715-18.
15. Ekman I, Andersson B, Ehnfors M, et al. Feasibility of a nurse-monitored, outpatient-care programme for elderly patients with moderate-to-severe, chronic heart failure. Eur Heart J 1998;19:1254-60.
16. Jaarsma T, Lvan-Der-Wal MH, Lesman LI, et al. [Value of basic or intensive management of patients with heart failure confirmed in a randomised controlled clinical trial]. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 2008;152:2016-21.
17. Atienza F, Anguita M, Martinez-Alzamora N, et al. Multicenter randomized trial of a comprehensive hospital discharge and outpatient heart failure management program. Eur J Heart Fail 2004;6:643-52.
18. Doughty RN, Wright SP, Pearl A, et al. Randomized, controlled trial of integrated heart failure management: the Auckland Heart Failure Management Study. Eur Heart J 2002;23:139-46.
19. Kasper EK, Gerstenblith G, Hefter G, et al. A randomized trial of the efficacy of multidisciplinary care in heart failure outpatients at high risk of hospital readmission. J Am Coll Cardiol 2002;39:471-80.
20. Bruggink-Andre de la Porte PWF, et al. Added value of a physician-and-nurse-directed heart failure clinic: results from the Deventer-Alkmaar heart failure study. Heart 2007;93:819-25.
21. Wierzchowiecki M, Poprawski K, Nowicka A, et al. A new programme of multidisciplinary care for patients with heart failure in Poznan: one-year follow-up. Kardiologia Polska 2006;64:1063-70.
22. McDonald K, Ledwidge M, Cahill J, et al. Elimination of early rehospitalization in a randomized, controlled trial of multidisciplinary care in a high-risk, elderly heart failure population: the potential contributions of specialist care, clinical stability and optimal angiotensin-convert. Eur J Heart Fail 2001;3:209-15.
23. Jaarsma T, van der Wal MH, Lesman-Leegate I, et al. for the Coordinating study evaluating outcomes of advising and counseling in Heart Failure (COACH) investigators. Effect of moderate or intensive disease Management program on outcome in patients with heart failure. Arch Intern Med 2008;168:316-24.
24. McDonald K, Ledwidge M, Cahill J, et al. Heart failure management: multidisciplinary care has intrinsic benefit above the optimization of medical care. J Card Fail 2002;8:142-8.
25. Campbell NC, Thain J, Deans HG, et al. Secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease: randomised trial of effect on health. BMJ 1998;316:1434-7.
26. Mejhert M, Kahan T, Persson H, et al. Limited long term effects of a management programme for heart failure. Heart 2004;90:1010-15.
27. McAlister FA, Stewart S, Ferrua S, et al. Multidisciplinary strategies for the management of heart failure patients at high risk for admission. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;44:810-19.
28. Gustafsson F, Arnold JM. Heart failure clinics and outpatient management: review of the evidence and call for quality assurance. Eur Heart J 2004;25:1596-604.
29. Holland R, Battersby J, Harvey I, et al. Systematic review of multidisciplinary interventions in heart failure. Heart 2005;91:899-906.
30. Taylor SJ, Bestall JC, Cotter S, et al. Clinical service organisation for heart failure. Cochrane DB Syst Rev 2004;(2):CD002752.
31. National Institute for Cardiovascular outcomes Research. National Heart Failure Audit. April 2010-March 2011. London, 2011. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/nicor/ audits/heartfailure/additionalfiles/pdfs/annualreports/annual11.pdf
32. Chronic Heart Failure costing report. Implementing NICE guidance. London, 2010. http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/13099/51015/51015.pdf
33. Stewart S, Blue L. Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure: A Practical Guide to Specialist Nurse Intervention. London: BMJ Books, 2001.