• Patient Educ Couns · Mar 2010

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    Effectiveness of self-management interventions on mortality, hospital readmissions, chronic heart failure hospitalization rate and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure: a systematic review.

    • Joanne B Ditewig, Helene Blok, Jeroen Havers, and Haske van Veenendaal.
    • The Dutch institute for Healthcare Improvement, CBO, Utrecht, The Netherlands. jb.ditewig@gmail.com
    • Patient Educ Couns. 2010 Mar 1;78(3):297-315.

    ObjectiveThis review examined the effectiveness of self-management interventions compared to usual care on mortality, all-cause hospital readmissions, chronic heart failure hospitalization rate and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure.MethodsA systematic review was performed. MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and the Cochrane Library were searched between 1996 and 2009. Randomized controlled trials were selected evaluating self-management interventions designed for patients with chronic heart failure. Outcomes of interest are mortality, all-cause hospital readmissions, chronic heart failure hospitalization rate and quality of life.ResultsNineteen randomized controlled trials were identified. The effectiveness of heart failure management programs initiating self-management interventions in patients with chronic heart failure indicate a positive effect, although not always significant, on reduction of numbers of all-cause hospital readmitted patients and due to chronic heart failure, decrease in mortality and increasing quality of life.ConclusionThis systematic review found that current available published studies show methodological shortcomings impairing validation of the effectiveness of self-management interventions on mortality, all-cause hospital readmissions, chronic heart failure hospitalization rate and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure.Practice ImplicationsFurther research should determine independent effects of self-management interventions and different combinations of interventions on clinical and patient reported outcomes.Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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