A tertiary care ambulatory heart failure pathway managing one-third of all admissions including older patients with similar quality to inpatient management

Abstract

admissions in England and Wales per year 1. 1 The average hospital stay lasts 13 days and costs around £3,800. 2 The increased use of same day emergency care (SDEC) services provide opportunity for novel HF management pathways while still achieving quality and best practice tariff targets 3 in this setting.