Financial aspects of heart failure programs of care
- 17 February 2005
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Heart Failure
- Vol. 7 (3), 423-428
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejheart.2005.01.001
Abstract
As suggested by studies that have examined the economic burden imposed by heart failure and, more specifically where the greatest expenditure occurs, the key to cost-effectively minimising the impact of a sustained heart failure epidemic is to minimise recurrent hospital use--even at the expense of increasing levels of community-based care and prescribed pharmacotherapy. This paper examines the potential cost-benefits of applying specialist heart failure programs of care and the range of financial issues that need to be considered when establishing a formal heart failure service.Keywords
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