title: Outpatient infusion clinics: a strategy for the successful management of advanced heart failure.
abstract: During the past four years, the Heart Failure Unit a Columbia Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago has used outpatient intermittent low-dose inotropic therapy to improve care and quality of life while reducing the number of hospital admissions, decreasing lengths of stay, and lowering the number of emergency room visits.
authors.affiliation: Columbia Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Heaney
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Antonio
mesh_terms: D002316:Cardiotonic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002641:Chicago; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life