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Evidence-Based Reports
- Heart Failure. Clinical Evidence Concise, 2005
- The Importance of Palliative Care in Heart Failure. NLH Specialist Library for CVD, 2007
- A telephone intervention reduced combined all cause mortality or admission for worsening heart failure in chronic heart failure. Evidence-Based Nursing (Requires free registration), 2006
- Does digoxin decrease morbidity for those in sinus rhythm with heart failure? Family Practice Inquiries Network, 2005
- Does the long-term addition of the angiotensin-receptor blocker valsartan to standard therapy for heart failure patients reduce morbidity and mortality? NeLM CAT
- A clinical prediction model predicted 30 day and 1 year mortality in patients admitted to hospital for heart failure. Evidence-Based Medicine (Requires free registration), 2005
- A centralised telephone intervention reduced combined all cause mortality or admission for worsening HF in chronic heart failure. Evidence-Based Medicine (Requires free registration), 2006
- A stepwise approach to managing heart failure. National Prescribing Service Limited, 2004
Clinical Guidelines
- Evaluation and therapy for heart failure in the setting of ischemic heart disease: HFSA 2006 comprehensive heart failure practice guideline. Heart Failure Society of America, 2006
- Surgical approaches to the treatment of heart failure: HFSA 2006 comprehensive heart failure practice guideline. Heart Failure Society of America, 2006
- Evaluation and management of patients with heart failure and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction: HFSA 2006 comprehensive heart failure practice guideline. Heart Failure Society of America, 2006
- Canadian Cardiovascular Society consensus conference recommendations on heart failure 2006 : diagnosis and management
- Heart failure in adults. Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, 2006
- Chronic heart failure: Management of chronic heart failure in adults in primary and secondary care. NICE, 2003
- Management of chronic heart failure. SIGN, 2007
- Heart Failure. PRODIGY, 2006
Systematic Reviews
- Heart Failure, Testing for BNP and NT-proBNP. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Evidence-based Practice, 2006
- The use of B-type natriuretic peptides in the investigation of patients with suspected heart failure. NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, 2005
- Diuretics for heart failure. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2005
- Cardiac resynchronisation therapy for severe heart failure. Medical Services Advisory Committee, 2006
- Complexity of program and clinical outcomes of heart failure disease management incorporating specialist nurse-led heart failure clinics: a meta-regression analysis. DARE, 2005
- Continuous infusion versus bolus injection of loop diuretics in congestive heart failure. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2005
- Clinical service organisation for heart failure. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2005
- Pentoxifylline for heart failure: a systematic review. DARE, 2005
- Does this dyspneic patient in the emergency department have congestive heart failure? DARE, 2005
- External counterpulsation for treatment of chronic stable angina pectoris and chronic heart failure. HTA, 2006
- Non-compliance in patients with heart failure: how can we manage it? DARE, 2005
- Multidisciplinary and multisetting team management programme in heart failure patients affects hospitalisation and costing. NHS EED
- Prophylactic pacemaker use to allow beta-blocker therapy in patients with chronic heart failure with bradycardia. NHS EED, 2006
Recent articles in core journals
- Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers for the Treatment of Heart Failure: A Class Effect? Pharmacotherapy, 2007
- Association of parental heart failure with risk of heart failure in offspring. NEJM, 2006
- The Seattle Heart Failure Model: prediction of survival in heart failure. Circulation, 2006
- Longer-term effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy on mortality in heart failure. Eur Heart J, 2006
- A novel prognostic index to determine the impact of cardiac conditions and co-morbidities on one-year outcome in patients with heart failure. Am J Cardiol, 2006
- Automated review of electronic health records to assess quality of care for outpatients with heart failure. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007
- Computer-based education for patients with chronic heart failure A randomised, controlled, multicentre trial of the effects on knowledge, compliance and quality of life. Patient Educ Couns, 2006
- Association between performance measures and clinical outcomes for patients hospitalized with heart failure. JAMA, 2007
- Effects of oral tolvaptan in patients hospitalized for worsening heart failure: the EVEREST Outcome Trial. JAMA, 2007
- Short-term clinical effects of tolvaptan, an oral vasopressin antagonist, in patients hospitalized for heart failure: the EVEREST Clinical Status Trials. JAMA, 2007
- Prevention of atrial fibrillation onset by beta-blocker treatment in heart failure: a meta-analysis. Eur Heart J, 2007
- Carvedilol Protects Better Against Vascular Events Than Metoprolol in Heart Failure Results From COMET. J Am Coll Cardiol, 2007
- Trends in prevalence and outcome of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. NEJM, 2006
- Effects of digoxin on morbidity and mortality in diastolic heart failure: the ancillary digitalis investigation group trial. Circulation, 2006
eTextbooks
Clinical Queries
- Do you have a summary of the major evidence regarding ACE Inhibitors and Angiotensin 2 antagonists in heart failure? NLH Q&A Service, 2007
- Is a BNP blood test a good screening test for identifying heart failure and is it cost effective? NLH Q&A Service, 2006 View answer OR Can you answer this question for extra CPD?
- Is there any evidence to support adding an angiotensin II receptor antagonist blocker to an ACE-inhibitor in heart failure? NLH Q&A Service, 2006
- What exactly are the mechanisms through which low dose beta-blockers act to give benefit in heart failure? NLH Q&A Service, 2006 View answer OR Can you answer this question for extra CPD?
- When would you use oxygen in a patient diagnosed with heart failure? Are there any contraindications? NLH Q&A Service, 2006 View answer OR Can you answer this question for extra CPD?
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