New Strategy May Cut HF Admissions from ED
By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: January 08, 2013
"A heart failure observation unit might reduce hospital admissions from emergency departments (EDs) by half, authors of a viewpoint article suggest.
An alternative approach would be a two-level targeted ED evaluation to determine a patient's risk and eligibility for discharge, according to Sean P. Collins, MD, of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and co-authors who published their viewpoint online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology."
Primary source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Source reference:Collins SP, et al "Is hospital admission for heart failure really necessary? The role of the emergency department and observation unit in preventing hospitalization and rehospitalization" J Am Coll Cardiol . 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.08.1022.
Source reference:Collins SP, et al "Is hospital admission for heart failure really necessary? The role of the emergency department and observation unit in preventing hospitalization and rehospitalization" J Am Coll Cardiol . 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.08.1022.
Additional source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Source reference:Desai AS, Stevenson LW "There must be a better way. Piloting alternative routes around heart failure hospitalizations" J Am Coll Cardiol 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.10.015.
Source reference:Desai AS, Stevenson LW "There must be a better way. Piloting alternative routes around heart failure hospitalizations" J Am Coll Cardiol 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.10.015.