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Clinical Pathways

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CHF Patient Pathway


Purpose of the Tool: Management of patients with Heart Failure
Submitter: Jeffrey L. Greenwald, MD

Tool Author: (if not the same as the submitter): Deborah Whalen, NP, George Phillippides, MD

E-mail contact information: Jeffrey.Greenwald@bmc.org

Date Tool Implemented: 2002

Name of Institution: Boston Medical Center

Description of Institution: Inner-city Academic Medical Center

Tool Format (paper-based, computer-based, on handheld etc….): Paper based. We have adopted the pathways for CPOE.

Key Advantages Using this Tool:

  1. Based on Best Practices
  2. Permits easy data gathering
  3. Well received by physician and nursing alike
  4. Updated regularly

Tips on Using this Tool:

  1. Needs inservicing
  2. Feedback to staff re compliance is important

Important Pitfalls:

  1. None

Resources Used to Develop Tool:

  1. National guidelines

Copyright © Boston Medical Center 2004. These policies are provided as-is solely to contribute to the discussion among medical professionals who are members of the Society of Hospital Medicine on the subject matter contained in the policy. Boston Medical Center grants no permission for any other use and disclaims liability for loss or damage that results from any other use. This policy is not intended to be medical, legal, or other professional advice nor is it represented to be a sufficient guide from which others can create their own policies.

The American Heart Association (AHA) Get with the Guidelines (GWTG)

The AHA GWTG site provides tools to promote outcome focused care within a defined period of time. The CHAMP Doctor's Orders from UCLA Medical Center are available via the GWTG site.

As per the AHA: This document has been provided to the American Heart Association by UCLA Medical Center as an example of standing orders. This document is available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use standing orders. By including this document on its web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that this document is complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all the American Heart Association Guidelines for Secondary and Primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own standing orders based on their own procedures and professional experience.

View the AHA example Clinical Pathway

 

 

 

Heart Failure Resource Room Project Team
This resource room is supported in part by an educational grant from Scios, Inc.

Disclaimer
The Heart Failure Resource Room is an online resource for visitors to the Society of Hospital Medicine’s website. All content and links have been reviewed by the Heart Failure Resource Room Project Team, however the Society of Hospital Medicine does not exercise any editorial control over content associated with the external links that have been made available via this website.
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