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European Heart Journal 2004 25(18):1565-1567; doi:10.1016/j.ehj.2004.08.004
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Editorial

Heart failure disease management works, but will it succeed?

John S. Rumsfeld* and Frederick A. Masoudi

Denver VA Medical Center, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

* Correspondence to: John S. Rumsfield, Cardiology/CV Outcomes Research (111B), Denver VA Medical Center, 1055 Clermont Street, Denver, CO 80220, USA. Tel.: +1 303 370 7575; fax: +1 303 370 7580 (E-mail: john.rumsfeld@med.va.gov).

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This editorial refers to "The effectiveness of disease management programmes in reducing hospital re-admission in older patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published reports" by J. Gonseth et al. on page 1570 and "Heart failure clinics and outpatient management: review of the evidence and call for quality assurance" by F. Gustafsson and J.M.O. Arnold on page 1596{dagger}.

Quality of care is defined as "the degree to which health services... increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge".1 Despite tremendous advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology of heart failure and the development of efficacious therapies, the quality of care for patients with heart failure is suboptimal. For example, although ACE-inhibitors carry a Class I guideline recommendation for patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction, less than 70% of eligible patients receive such therapy at the time of discharge from a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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