Healthcare Team Attitudes Influencing the Use of Intravenous Furosemide in a Long Term Care Center for the Treatment of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

For residents living in long term care (LTC), cardiovascular disease represents one of the broadest challenges. Included within this diagnostic category are a number of diseases such as hypertension, myocardial infarction, and ischemic stroke, with heart failure being one of the common complications. Among comorbidities seen in the elderly, acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) exacerbations occur often and contribute to approximately 27-45% of the re-hospitalizations observed within thirty days post discharge into the LTC setting.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Quality Improvement Source Type: research