54 JAMC• 5 JUILL. 2005; 173 (1) the results of a prospective randomized clinical trial
involving 230 patients discharged from hospital with heart failure at the Montreal Heart …

Background: Although multidisciplinary congestive heart failure clinics in the United States
appear to be effective in reducing the number of hospital readmissions, it is unclear whether …

Doctors working in the field of chronic heart failure are, in many ways, in an enviable
position. They have a range of effective treatments that can approximately double life …

Background: Multidisciplinary disease management approaches have been shown to
decrease resource use in selected samples of patients with heart failure. We remain …

BACKGROUND: We evaluated whether multidisciplinary disease management programme
developed with collaboration of physicians and nurses inside and outside general district …

1 Background The last two decades have witnessed significant advances in the
management of heart failure. Patients enrolled in the active arms of clinical trials of …

Purpose: This work addresses the unanswered question of whether multidisciplinary care
(MDC) of heart failure (HF) can reduce readmissions when optimal medical care is applied …

Background—Multidisciplinary heart failure (HF) clinics are efficacious in clinical trials. Our
objectives were to compare real-world outcomes of patients with HF treated in HF clinics …

Background Specialized multidisciplinary clinics have been shown to reduce mortality in
heart failure (HF). Our objective was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of this model of care …

Introduction: A multidisciplinary disease management (DM) programme in chronic heart
failure (CHF) improves clinical outcome. The efficacy of such a programme in a …