Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure : Specialist Nurse Intervention from Research to Practice.
This international text reflects the move towards management of chronic heart failure patients by nurse specialists. It presents all the evidence, based on international studies, combined with advice on how to put these strategies into practice.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
John Wiley & Sons,
2007.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1: Increased health care utilisation and costs: heart failure in the 21st century; 2: State of the art treatment for chronic heart failure; 3: Specialist nurse intervention in chronic heart failure: the evidence to date; 4: Glasgow Heart Failure Liaison Service: a model for future services; 5: Establishing national heart failure services: can we afford not to?; 6: A blueprint for identifying and managing patients within a heart failure service; 7: Assessing the patient with heart failure.
- 8: Optimising the day to day management of patients with chronic heart failure9: Pharmacological treatment for chronic heart failure: a specialist nurse perspective; 10: New frontiers in specialist nurse management of heart failure; Appendices: some practical advice; Appendix 1: Profile of the specialist heart failure nurse: qualifications and training; Appendix 2: Case studies in managing chronic heart failure; Appendix 3: Suppo.