title: Protecting patients from harm: taking aim at heart failure.
abstract: Learn how initiating best practices for managing chronic heart failure can lessen the toll of this dangerous and increasingly prevalent problem.
authors.affiliation: Heart Failure Cardiac Transplant Program, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA.
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chojnowski
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D019468:Disease Management; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015995:Prevalence; D012042:Registries; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012648:Self Care; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology