Abstract: Background: Congestive heart failure (CHF) have been negatively effecting the budget of health care systems, Thus interventions designed to prevent readmissions among populations transitioning from one care setting to another are often called “transitional care interventions
Purpose: this review aimed to assess the efficacy, comparative effectiveness and the impact of transitional care interventions (TCIs) on acute health service use to prevent harms to patients with congestive heart failure in primary care.
Methodology: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis by searching the Medline, PsycInfo, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases. We have selected most of studies that concerning the topic of this study including randomized, controlled trials published in English reporting hospital readmissions and emergency department (ED) visits.
Conclusion: this research is a review on studies that evaluated the effectiveness of a transitional care model for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). The evaluation focused on improving the transition from hospital to home care by upgrading traditional discharge practices and implementing an evidence-based educational program.
Keywords: Congestive Heart Failure, Transitional Care Interventions, PCPs.
Title: Transitional Care for Patients with Congestive Heart Failure
Author: Talal Duhaim M Alanazi, Fahad Saad Z Alanazi, Mohana Jabban A Alenezi
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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