Assessment of the knowledge and perception of support of patients with heart failure SOPICA study IN SPAIN

IMPROV-ED study: outcomes after discharge for an episode of acute-decompensated heart failure and comparison between patients discharged from the emergency department and hospital wards

“…Therefore, follow-up arrangements after hospital discharge may have been better than those made after ED discharge, and could account, at least in part, for these differences. Failure to initiate guideline-directed medical therapy and the lack of timely, outpatient follow-up post-discharge are two variables that repeatedly appear to be particularly important in the determination of patient outcome [17][18][19]. Alternatively to poorer ED management, increased ED revisit by patients discharged from the ED could be due, at least to some extent, by some patients possibly using the ED as a substitute for primary care physicians either because they believe they receive better service, or because they are illeducated.…”