If you find that many of your acute heart failure patients are being re-admitted, you’re not alone. “We are not doing a very good job of taking care of these patients.”5% of these patients return to the hospital within 30 days for heart failure, and 50% are back within six to 12 months .
We can help reduce these numbers by better differentiating the type of heart failure; knowing what tests to use and what drugs and devices do or don’t work; and doing a better job educating and treating patients on discharge.
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