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The Heart Failure Toolkit
The Toolkit provides health services with a targeted approach to addressing readmission rates and decreasing variation in care.
The Toolkit provides health services with a targeted approach to addressing readmission rates and decreasing variation in care.
Three pillars of heart failure optimisation and a framework displaying these pillars in action, provide the basis for heart failure clinical process redesign. The essential role of using performance data to drive quality improvement provides a solid foundation on which these pillars rest to ensure opportunities exist for benchmarking and ongoing quality improvement.
Resources
- Heart Failure Toolkit - Full Version
- Heart Failure Toolkit - Three Pillars of Optimisation
- Heart Failure Toolkit Optimisation Framework
- Heart Failure in Victoria Under The Spotlight
- ICHOM standard set for heart failure and heart failure data collection reference guide
Further Information
For further information please email contactus@heartfoundation.org.au
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