Elusive but hopefully not illusive: coordinating care for patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Depending on your perspective, a unicorn could be either a magical horned creature or a billion-dollar start-up. Alternatively, it could represent coordinated care for patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), as it does for Brooman-White et al.1 In their accompanying paper on coordination of care for patients with HFpEF, which included an analysis of 12 clinical guidelines and secondary analysis of qualitative interviews with patients and healthcare professionals in the UK’s National Health Service, the authors describe the apparent illusiveness of securing coordinated specialist and generalist care for this complex patient group. However, by explicating when and why problems arise, Brooman-White et al offer hope that the pursuit of coordinated care is not really as illusive as the unicorn they describe it as, but rather an elusive challenge which requires renewed focus and strategies designed around the needs of patients who use these services....
Source: Quality and Safety in Health Care - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Editorials Source Type: research