[Educating patients about heart failure in community hospitals: it is possible...].
Prognosis for heart failure is linked to patient's compliance. Compliance is also dependent from patient education about his disease and treatment. Therapeutic education could be done in a community hospital but needs a lot of time. However, therapeutic education for heart failure patients becomes more and more essential in clinical practice and improves patient knowledge and implication and hospitalization duration.
Jourdain
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Unité thérapeutique d'insuffisance cardiaque et service de cardiologie, centre hospitalier René-Dubos, 6, avenue d'Ile-de-France, 95300 Pontoise, France. patrick.jourdain@ch-pontoise.fr
Funck
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Bellorini
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Neau
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Mat
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Abdelmoumene
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Pege
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Piccini
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Astred
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Thebault
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Loiret
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Guillard
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Desnos
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005602:France; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors