Jourdain P, Funck F, Bellorini M, Neau S, Mat H, Abdelmoumene N, Pege C, Piccini A, Astred A, Thebault B, Loiret J, Guillard N, Desnos M. [Educating patients about heart failure in community hospitals: it is possible...].
Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris) 2003;
52:329-36. [PMID:
14714349]
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Abstract
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.
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