Congestive heart failure is a chronic medical condition that affects about 2% of the adult population. Even though it cannot be cured, it can be relieved by a proper, long-term, complex and personalized disease management. In this paper we present the HeartMan Decision Support System (DSS), ...
Introduction: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the most important chronic diseases in the world that these patients are faced with various physical and psychological stressful factors which leads to decreasing quality of life. Social support by all sources can lead to decreasing problems in...
Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure.Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being;5:10.3402/qhw.v5i2.5064.Sundin K, Bruce E, Barremo A. S. Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure. International Journal of Qualitative ...
It took two visits to the emergency room to learn what was going on. The first doctor diagnosed me with pneumonia and sent me home with some meds. They didn’t help. Follow-up tests and X-rays revealed PPCM and congestive heart failure. I also had a hole in my lungs. ...
Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure. Int J Qual Stud Health Well-Being 2010; 5: 5064.Sundin K, Bruce E, Barremo AS(2010). Elderly women's experiences of support when living with congestive heart failure.Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being;5:...
Congestive heart failure (CHF): Grade ≥3 left ventricular dysfunction (1%) Infusion-related reactions with the first dose of Avastin occurred in <3% of patients, and severe reactions occurred in 0.4% of patients Avoid use in patients with ovarian cancer who have evidence of recto-sigmoid invol...
Context Comprehensive discharge planning plus postdischarge support may reduce readmission rates for older patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Objective To evaluate the effect of comprehensive discharge planning plus postdischarge support on the rate of readmission in patients with CHF, all-cause...
Adjustment was made for potential baseline confounders, including age, baseline BDI score, Killip class, ejection fraction, creatinine level, previous MI, and prior diagnosis of congestive heart failure, stroke or transient ischemic attack, pulmonary disease, or diabetes. All statistical analyses were ...
heart failure, congestivehospitalizationlength of staymeta-analysispatient dischargeCONTEXT: Comprehensive discharge planning plus postdischarge support may reduce readmission rates for older patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of comprehensive discharge planning plus ...
Correlation was not detected for trauma-related responses (p>.10; r=.19). Non-trauma-related case incidence varied among age groups, ranging from 1.1/1,000 for age five through nine years to 89/1,000 for age 80–84 years. Congestive heart failure, cardiac ischemia, syncope, myocardial ...