title: Team Medicine for CHF Treatment.
abstract: The mortality associated with end stage heart failure (HF) is high, despite the development of new and increasingly effective drugs and non-pharmacological therapies. Repetitive hospitalizations predict fatal outcomes, and each hospitalization should prompt individual conversations with the patient, the family and the caregivers. A multidisciplinary disease management program promotes the education of patients and their families, and modifies their behaviour, with a view to ultimately improving the prognosis and quality of life. Beginning with the earliest stages of HF, on through the late stages, a multidisciplinary disease management program should be implemented.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center.
authors.forename: Yukihito
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sato
mesh_terms: D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D044623:Nutrition Therapy; D010166:Palliative Care; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic