title: Cost-effective outpatient management of persons with heart failure.
abstract: Congestive heart failure remains one of the most prevalent and costly syndromes to treat throughout the world. In an era when cost-effective, quality, outcome-based care is a mandate, advanced practice nurse managed heart failure clinics propose a solution to this formidable problem. This paper examines a model of care based on self-monitoring utilized by an advanced practice nurse to effect the inter-related outcomes of readmission and cost of care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Hines VA Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Henrick
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000191:economics*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000451:nursing*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D014481:United States