Virtual Care Team Guided Management of Patients With Heart Failure During Hospitalization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Scalable and safe approaches for heart failure guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) optimization are needed.

Objectives

The authors assessed the safety and effectiveness of a virtual care team guided strategy on GDMT optimization in hospitalized patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

Methods

In a multicenter implementation trial, we allocated 252 hospital encounters in patients with left ventricular ejection fraction ≤40% to a virtual care team guided strategy (107 encounters among 83 patients) or usual care (145 encounters among 115 patients) across 3 centers in an integrated health system. In the virtual care team group, clinicians received up to 1 daily GDMT optimization suggestion from a physician-pharmacist team. The p

SUBMITTER: Bhatt AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10947307 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature