Home-based exercise increased exercise capacity safely but did not improve quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure .
It could therefore be used to improve the management of people with chronic heart failure who do not have access to hospital-based exercise
QUESTIONS Does home-based exercise improve exercise capacity and quality of life in people with chronic heart failure ?
Is it safe ?
Telephone Interventions by Nursing Students: Improving Outcomes for Heart Failure Patients in the Community
Community care for heart failure patients is difficult due to multiple comorbidities , polypharmacy , and advanced age of patients . Studies show that hospital admissions and emergency room visits decrease with increased nursing interventions in home and community setting s. The purpose of this study 1 was to assess the effectiveness of regular telephone interventions by nursing students on outcomes of heart failure patients in the home . Senior students were paired with community nursing staff and assigned 2 heart failure patients to follow up by telephone calls for 12 to 14 weeks . Patients who received telephone interventions had fewer hospital readmissions ( 13 % ) than the comparison group ( 35 % ) . Patients in the telephone intervention group also had fewer overt heart failure symptoms as measured by the Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Question naire
Home-based exercise increased exercise capacity safely but did not improve quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure .
It could therefore be used to improve the management of people with chronic heart failure who do not have access to hospital-based exercise
QUESTIONS Does home-based exercise improve exercise capacity and quality of life in people with chronic heart failure ?
Is it safe ?