Multidisciplinary Heart Failure Clinic: How to Implement
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https://doi.org/10.24950/rspmi/R58/17/2017Keywords:
Ambulatory Care, Delivery of Health Care, Heart Failure, HospitalizationAbstract
The objective of this article is to briefly review the state-of-theart
about heart failure clinics and to report the implementation
of our clinic, as an example in the Portuguese reality. Thereby,
the evidence supporting the recommendations to implement
those clinics is reviewed, as well as their structure, domains
that need to be addressed, necessary interventions and the
impact on outcomes after their implementation. After revision
of the scarce evidence from Portuguese reality, we reveal how
we implemented our multidisciplinary heart failure clinic. We
present our team, the structured follow-up program and the
impact in the major outcomes after the first three years of clinical
practice, namely mortality and readmission reduction. In
conclusion, we think that care to heart failure patients in Portugal
can improve, if more heart failure clinics are implemented,
and we hope this article can promote that process.
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