Heart Failure Clinics are Rarely Utilized Despite Clear Benefits

Outpatient heart failure (HF) clinics have been shown to reduce morbidity, mortality, and health care costs. HF clinics usually provide patient education on ways to manage heart failure and risk factors, prescribe home-based exercises, and monitor therapy compliance. A new study finds that despite guidelines that encourage physicians to recommend heart failure clinics, very few patients recently hospitalized with HF receive referrals or use one. The study is published ...

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