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Self-care of heart failure patients : Practical management recommendations from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology
Jaarsma, Tiny Hill, Loreena Bayes-Genis, Antoni La Rocca, Hans-Peter Brunner Castiello, Teresa Čelutkienė, Jelena Marques-Sule, Elena Plymen, Carla M. Piper, Susan E. Riegel, Barbara
Jaarsma, Tiny
Hill, Loreena
Bayes-Genis, Antoni
La Rocca, Hans-Peter Brunner
Castiello, Teresa
Čelutkienė, Jelena
Marques-Sule, Elena
Plymen, Carla M.
Piper, Susan E.
Riegel, Barbara
Author
Jaarsma, Tiny
Hill, Loreena
Bayes-Genis, Antoni
La Rocca, Hans-Peter Brunner
Castiello, Teresa
Čelutkienė, Jelena
Marques-Sule, Elena
Plymen, Carla M.
Piper, Susan E.
Riegel, Barbara
Rutten, Frans H.
Ben Gal, Tuvia
Bauersachs, Johann
Coats, Andrew J. S.
Chioncel, Ovidiu
Lopatin, Yuri
Lund, Lars H.
Lainscak, Mitja
Moura, Brenda
Mullens, Wilfried
Piepoli, Massimo F.
Rosano, Giuseppe
Seferovic, Petar
Strömberg, Anna
Hill, Loreena
Bayes-Genis, Antoni
La Rocca, Hans-Peter Brunner
Castiello, Teresa
Čelutkienė, Jelena
Marques-Sule, Elena
Plymen, Carla M.
Piper, Susan E.
Riegel, Barbara
Rutten, Frans H.
Ben Gal, Tuvia
Bauersachs, Johann
Coats, Andrew J. S.
Chioncel, Ovidiu
Lopatin, Yuri
Lund, Lars H.
Lainscak, Mitja
Moura, Brenda
Mullens, Wilfried
Piepoli, Massimo F.
Rosano, Giuseppe
Seferovic, Petar
Strömberg, Anna
Abstract
Self-care is essential in the long-term management of chronic heart failure. Heart failure guidelines stress the importance of patient education on treatment adherence, lifestyle changes, symptom monitoring and adequate response to possible deterioration. Self-care is related to medical and person-centred outcomes in patients with heart failure such as better quality of life as well as lower mortality and readmission rates. Although guidelines give general direction for self-care advice, health care professionals working with patients with heart failure need more specific recommendations. The aim of the management recommendations in this paper is to provide practical advice for health professionals delivering care to patients with heart failure. Recommendations for nutrition, physical activity, medication adherence, psychological status, sleep, leisure and travel, smoking, immunization and preventing infections, symptom monitoring, and symptom management are consistent with information from guidelines, expert consensus documents, recent evidence and expert opinion.
Keywords
self-care, heart failure, lifestyle, patient education
Date
2021
Type
Journal article
Journal
European Journal of Heart Failure
Book
Volume
23
Issue
1
Page Range
157-174
Article Number
ACU Department
Faculty of Health Sciences
Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research
Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research
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Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
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All rights reserved
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