Nursing Annotated Bibliography for Chronic Heart Failure Management

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Nursing annotated bibliography
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Part 1: Annotated bibliography
Strömberg, A., Mårtensson, J., Fridlund, B., Levin, L. Å., Karlsson, J. E., & Dahlström, U.
(2003). Nurse-led heart failure clinics improve survival and self-care behaviour in
patients with heart failure: results from a prospective, randomised trial. European heart
journal, 24(11), 1014-1023, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0195-668X(03)00112-X
A prospective randomized trial was done with hospitalized patient with heart failure to
investigate about the impact of nurse-led heart failure clinic on mortality, morbidity and self-care
behavior of participant. The research was conducted in one university hospital and two county
hospitals in Sweden. It includes one intervention group and one control group and the criteria for
blinding was fulfilled by computer generated list of random numbers and sealed envelopes. The
intervention group at the nurse-led clinic was followed-up by experience cardiac nurse after 2-3
weeks and the activities done by nurses included status evaluation, education on heart failure and
social support to patient. The control group received current clinical practice and follow-up in
primary health care clinic. The data related to demographics and clinical details were collected
from medical chart of patient and data on self-care was collected by means of a questionnaire
tool. The primary outcome variable was all-cause mortality and hospital admission after one year
and secondary variable includes self-care behavior, number of readmissions and number of days
in hospital. The results of the study showed that intervention group had fewer deaths, fewer
admission rates and higher self-score behavior. It was concluded that nurse-led follow after
hospital can improve survival rate and self-care behavior of patients with heart failure.

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Sagar, V. A., Davies, E. J., Briscoe, S., Coats, A. J., Dalal, H. M., Lough, F., ... & Taylor, R. S.
(2015). Exercise-based rehabilitation for heart failure: systematic review and meta-
analysis. Open heart, 2(1), e000163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2014-000163
A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial was done to
evaluate the impact of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure. The data sources for
the systematic review included databases like MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and PsycINFO
and the sample population for the studies needed to include heart failure with preserve ejection
fraction (HFPEF) or heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFREF) patient. Another
criteria for study selection was that all participant must have reported about at least 6 months
follow-up and they must all have received exercise training apart from other intervention. The
outcome measure for studies were also considered and the criteria was to have outcome data
related to mortality, hospital admission, health related quality of life and cost and cost-
effectiveness. A total of 33 trials was found to fulfill the research criteria and the systematic
review of these literatures indicated that exercise intervention reduced the risk of heart failure
and overall hospitalization rate. The data were independent of trial duration and dose of exercise.
Overall, the study concluded that exercise based cardiac rehabilitation can lead to improvement
in hospitalization and quality of life in patients with cardiac failure.
Faris, R., Flather, M. D., Purcell, H., Poole-Wilson, P. A., & Coats, A. J. (2006). Diuretics for
heart failure. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 1. Doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003838.pub2
A systematic review of randomized controlled trial was done to evaluate the harm and
benefits for chronic heart failure in patients with chronic heart failure. The main rational for this
aim was to evaluate how diuretics can control disease progression and improve survival rate in