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Setting Up a Heart Failure Program in 2018: Moving Towards New Paradigm(s)

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Purpose of Review

Heart failure (HF) is the first cause of hospitalization in the elderly in Western countries, generating tremendous healthcare costs. Despite the spread of multidisciplinary post-discharge programs, readmission rates have remained unchanged over time. We review the recent developments in this setting.

Recent Findings

Recent data plead for global reorganization of HF care, specifically targeting patients at high risk for further readmission, as well as a stronger involvement of primary care providers (PCP) in patients’ care plan. Besides, tools, devices, and new interdisciplinary expertise have emerged to support and be integrated into those programs; they have been greeted with great enthusiasm, but their routine applicability remains to be determined.

Summary

HF programs in 2018 should focus on pragmatic assessments of patients that will benefit the most from the multidisciplinary care; delegating the management of low-risk patients to trained PCP and empowering the patient himself, using the newly available tools as needed.

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Dr Ducharme holds the University of Montreal's Fondation Marcelle et Jean Coutu, Cal et Janine Moisan Chair for improving practices in advanced heart failure.

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Bouabdallaoui, N., Ducharme, A. Setting Up a Heart Failure Program in 2018: Moving Towards New Paradigm(s). Curr Heart Fail Rep 15, 357–367 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11897-018-0412-x

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