title: Interventions for heart failure readmissions: successes and failures.
abstract: Heart failure readmissions result in significant costs to the health care system and to patients' quality of life, but programs to reduce readmissions have met with mixed success. Successful strategies have included multidisciplinary hospital-based quality initiatives, disease management programs, and care transition interventions. Devices like telemonitors and indwelling catheters, however, have met with mixed success. Research is still needed to elucidate the most effective interventions for readmission reduction in the HF population.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 185 Pilgrim Rd, Boston, MA, 02215, USA, lmflemin@bidmc.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Lisa M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Fleming
authors.forename: Robb D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Kociol
mesh_terms: D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010346:Patient Care Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010359:Patient Readmission; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration; D012307:Risk Factors; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods