ArticleBMC geriatrics2015
Heart failure in nursing home residents; a cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence and clinical characteristics.
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- Heart failure in nursing homes: A scoping review of educational interventions for optimising care provision.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2024Article
- How to Manage Beta-Blockade in Older Heart Failure Patients: A Scoping Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Heart Failure Nurses within the Primary Care Setting.Cardiac failure review · 2024Review
- Descriptive Epidemiology of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in US Nursing Home Residents With Heart Failure.Current problems in cardiology · 2023Review
- The clinical value of hepatojugular reflux on congestive heart failure: A meta-analysis.Journal of general and family medicine · 2022Article
- Heart failure among US nursing home residents with diabetes mellitus.International journal of cardiology · 2022Article
- Reliability of the blood pressure response during performance of bedside Valsalva maneuver and association with NT-pBNP levels.Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2021Article
- Management of heart failure: an Italian national survey on fellows/specialists in geriatrics.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2020Article
- Optimisation of Heart Failure Management in Nursing Homes Using Point-of-Care Ultrasonography: Harmonious Trial Rationale and Design.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2020Article
- Long-Term Care Facilities and the Coronavirus Epidemic: Practical Guidelines for a Population at Highest Risk.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2020Article
- National survey on the management of heart failure in individuals over 80 years of age in French geriatric care units.BMC geriatrics · 2019Observational
- Heart failure in primary care: prevalence related to age and comorbidity.Primary health care research & development · 2019Article
- Clinical burden of illness in patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) and associated comorbidities - a retrospective study of German health insurance claims data.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2019Article
- [Chronic heart failure in older patients : Updated national healthcare guidelines on chronic heart failure from a geriatric perspective].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundHeart failure (HF) is expected to be highly prevalent in nursing home residents, but precise figures are scarce. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of HF in nursing home residents and to get insight in the clinical characteristics of residents with HF.
methodsThe study followed a multi-centre cross-sectional design. Nursing home residents (n = 501) in the southern part of the Netherlands aged over 65 years and receiving long-term somatic or psychogeriatric care were included in the study. The diagnosis of HF and related characteristics were based on data collected from actual clinical examinations (including history, physical examination, ECG, cardiac markers and echocardiography), patient records and questionnaires. A panel of two cardiologists and a geriatrician ultimately judged the data to diagnose HF.
resultsThe overall prevalence of HF in nursing home residents was 33 %, of which 52 % had HF with preserved ejection fraction. The symptoms dyspnoea and oedema and a cardiac history were more common in residents with HF. Diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were also more prevalent in those with HF. Residents with HF had a higher score on the Mini Mental State Examination. 54 % of those with HF where not known before, and in 31 % with a history of HF, this diagnosis was not confirmed by the expert panel.
conclusionThis study shows that HF is highly prevalent in nursing home residents with many unknown or falsely diagnosed with HF. Equal number of HF patients had reduced and preserved left-ventricular ejection fraction.
trial registrationThe Netherlands National Trial Register NTR2663 (27-12-2010).
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