[A comprehensive management system for heart failure improves clinical outcomes and reduces medical resource utilization].

Background: Hospital admissions for heart failure are common and readmission rates are high. Many admissions and readmissions may be avoidable, so that alternative strategies are needed to improve long-term management.

Methods: We conducted a randomized trial of the effect of a guideline-based intervention on rates of readmission within 90 days of hospital discharge and costs of care for patients who were hospitalized due to decompensated heart failure.

[Proposed protocol for the ambulatory management of patients discharged with heart failure diagnosis: collaborative project Venice-HF].

Background: Hospital admissions for heart failure are common and readmission rates are high. Many admissions and readmissions may be avoidable, so that alternative strategies are needed to improve long-term management.

Methods: We conducted a randomized trial of the effect of a guideline-based intervention on rates of readmission within 90 days of hospital discharge and costs of care for patients who were hospitalized due to decompensated heart failure.