Heart Failure Home Management Challenges and Reasons for Readmission: a Qualitative Study to Understand the Patient's Perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heart failure patients have high 30-day hospital readmission rates. Interventions designed to prevent readmissions have had mixed success. Understanding heart failure home management through the patient's experience may reframe the readmission "problem" and, ultimately, inform alternative strategies.

Objective

To understand patient and caregiver challenges to heart failure home management and perceived reasons for readmission.

Design

Observational qualitative study.

Participants

Heart failure patients were recruited from two hospitals and included those who were hospitalized for heart failure at least twice within 30 days and those who had been recently discharged after their first heart failure admission.

Approach

Open-ended, semi-structured

SUBMITTER: Sevilla-Cazes J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6153210 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature