title: Specialized acute care and heart failure management programs.
abstract: When patients with acute heart failure are treated by specialist teams in dedicated units, there are gains in terms of adherence to guidelines, with corresponding clinical and prognostic benefits. Extending this specialized care to heart failure management programs, with multidisciplinary teams headed by doctors but with a strong nursing component and in conjunction with other levels of care, leads to further gains for patients and for the efficiency of the health system as a whole.
authors.forename: Victor M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Gil
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000592:standards*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans