Two-Thirds of Discharged HF Patients Not Receiving Recommended Drugs

People with heart failure are among the most frequently hospitalized patients—despite inexpensive evidence-based drugs and self-care support strategies proven to reduce hospitalization. HealthSciences Institute advisory board member, Dr. Nancy Albert, Director, Nursing Research and Innovation-Nursing Institute and Clinical Nurse Specialist in HF at the Cleveland Clinic, and colleagues, published a study this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association finding that only one-third of patients treated by the 201 hospitals voluntarily enrolled in the American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines Program received recommended drugs such as aldosterone antagonists despite the availability of spironolactone—an inexpensive, generic aldosterone antagonist. Read more.

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