Result of The Heart Failure Clinic at Nakhon Chai Si Hospital, NakhonPathom Province

Authors

  • Sapol Theerawattanawit Medical group, Nakhon Chai Si Hospital

Keywords:

heart failure, heart failure clinic, re-hospitalization

Abstract

Background: Patients hospitalized with acute heart failure had high heart failure re-hospitalization rate. The previous studies showed that the heart failure clinic with multidisciplinary team can reduce heart failure re-hospitalization.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of the heart failure clinic on 30-day heart failure re-hospitalization after patients were admitted with acute heart failure at Nakhon Chai Si Hospital.

Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, the data were collected from the medical record of patients who were hospitalized with acute heart failure at Nakhon Chai Si Hospital, Thailand from October 2022 to December 2023 and were followed up at the outpatient clinic. The patients were assigned to the heart failure clinic with multidisciplinary team which is composed of physicians, nurse, pharmacists and nutritionists or the general clinic which physicians are the main practitioners.

Results: There were 144 patients in this study. 64 patients were followed up at the heart failure clinic. 80 patients were followed up at the general clinic. The mean age was 67.9 years. 34.7 percents of patients were male. There were 6 patients (9.4%) in the heart failure clinic group were re-hospitalized with recurrent heart failure at 30 day, while there were 21 patients (26.2%) in the general clinic group (p=0.010). There were 12 patients (18.8%) in the heart failure clinic group were re-hospitalized with any causes at 30 day, while there were 29 patients (36.2%) in the general clinic group (p=0.021). In univariate analyses, the 30-day heart failure re-hospitalization was lower in the heart failure clinic group (odd ratio [OR] 0.291, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.109-0.772, p=0.013). In multivariate analyses, the 30-day heart failure re-hospitalization was also lower in the heart failure clinic group (OR 0.217, 95% CI 0.071-0.669, p= 0.008).

Conclusion: The heart failure clinic with multidisciplinary team in patients who were hospitalized with acute heart failure can reduce both 30-day heart failure re-hospitalization and 30-day re-hospitalization.

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2024-12-31

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Theerawattanawit, S. (2024). Result of The Heart Failure Clinic at Nakhon Chai Si Hospital, NakhonPathom Province. Hua Hin Medical Journal, 4(3), 25–39. Retrieved from https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/hhsk/article/view/274824

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