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01-06-2012 | Congestive Heart Failure (J Lindenfeld, Section Editor)

Role of Self-Care in the Patient with Heart Failure

Authors: Debra K. Moser, Victoria Dickson, Tiny Jaarsma, Christopher Lee, Anna Stromberg, Barbara Riegel

Published in: Current Cardiology Reports | Issue 3/2012

Abstract

Optimal outcomes and quality of life for patients with heart failure depend on engagement in effective self-care activities. Self-care is a complex set of activities and most clinicians are not adequately prepared to assist their patients to engage in effective self-care. In this paper, we provide an overview of self-care that includes definitions, the importance of self-care to outcomes, the physiologic basis for better outcomes with good self-care, cultural perspectives of self-care, and recommendations for the improvement of self-care. Promotion of effective self-care by all clinicians could substantially reduce the economic and personal burden of repeated rehospitalizations among patients with heart failure.

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Title: Role of Self-Care in the Patient with Heart Failure
Authors: Debra K. Moser
Victoria Dickson
Tiny Jaarsma
Christopher Lee
Anna Stromberg
Barbara Riegel
Publication date: 01-06-2012
Publisher: Current Science Inc.
Published in: Current Cardiology Reports / Issue 3/2012
Print ISSN: 1523-3782
Electronic ISSN: 1534-3170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11886-012-0267-9

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