Heart failure clinical resources
Clinical resources for health care professionals to improve the management of patients with heart failure.
Heart failure guidelines: A concise summary for General Practitioners
This article contains information based on current evidence and recommendations about:
- Key practice points
- Heart failure prevention
- Diagnosis and monitoring of heart failure
- Heart failure diagnostic criteria
- Diagnostic work-up and management of suspected heart failure
- Management of HFrEF
- Treatment considerations
- Models of care to improve evidence-based practice
- Approach to managing comorbidities in patients with heart failure
- Suggested quality of care measures for patients with heart failure.
Heart Failure Guidelines: A concise summary for the GP (PDF)
HEART Online: Heart Education Assessment Rehabilitation Toolkit
HEART Online is a cardiac rehabilitation and heart failure management toolkit that supports clinicians in delivering evidence-based care. It includes resources for:
- Behaviour changes
- Psychosocial issues
- Medications
- Patient education
- Treatment and management
Visit Heart Online
Heart Failure Toolkit: Reducing readmissions
The Heart Failure Toolkit is a resource developed to help clinicians decrease the readmission rate for heart failure in Australia. Using data collected from the Reducing Heart Failure Readmissions Project, it combines a targeted approach to reducing heart failure readmissions and decreasing variance in care.The Heart Failure Toolkit includes resources for:
- Patient-centred outcome measures for heart failure
- Systematic capture of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
- Readmissions scorecard developed using the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED).
Download Heart Failure Toolkit (PDF) or via our Smart Heart Guidelines App (link to App)
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