Effects of nurse management on the quality of heart failure care in minority communities: a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite therapies proven effective for heart failure with systolic dysfunction, the condition continues to cause substantial hospitalization, disability, and death, especially among African- American and other nonwhite populations.

Objective

To compare the effects of a nurse-led intervention focused on specific management problems versus usual care among ethnically diverse patients with systolic dysfunction in ambulatory care practices.

Design

Randomized effectiveness trial conducted from September 2000 to September 2002.

Setting

The 4 hospitals in Harlem, New York.

Patients

406 adults (45.8% were non-Hispanic black adults, 32.5% were Hispanic adults, 46.3% were women, and 36.7% were > or =65 years of age) who met eligibility criteria: systoli

SUBMITTER: Sisk JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4307780 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature