Hospital-based quality improvement interventions for patients with heart failure: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the direction and magnitude of effect and quality of evidence for hospital-based heart failure (HF) quality improvement interventions on process of care measures and clinical outcomes among patients with acute HF.

Review methods

We performed a structured search to identify relevant randomised trials evaluating the effect of in-hospital quality improvement interventions for patients hospitalised with HF through February 2017. Studies were independently reviewed in duplicate for key characteristics, outcomes were summarised and a qualitative synthesis was performed due to substantial heterogeneity.

Results

From 3615 records, 14 randomised controlled trials were identified for inclusion with multifaceted interventions. There was a trend towards high

SUBMITTER: Agarwal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7271674 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature