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Heart Failure Clinical Tools Library
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Supporting Guidelines
ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult (Summary version)
Discharge Orders/Discharge Instructions
These documents have been provided to the American Heart Association by the below hospitals as examples of discharge orders/discharge instructions. These documents are available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use discharge orders/discharge instructions. By including this document on its Web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that these documents are complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all of the American Heart Association guidelines for secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own discharge orders/discharge instructions based on their own procedures and professional experience.
Order Sets
These documents have been provided to the American Heart Association by the below hospitals as examples of order sets. These documents are available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use order sets. By including these documents on its Web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that these documents are complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all of the American Heart Association guidelines for secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own discharge orders/discharge instructions based on their own procedures and professional experience.
Pathways/Algorithms
These documents have been provided to the American Heart Association by the below hospitals as examples of pathways/algorithms. These documents are available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use pathways/algorithms. By including these documents on its Web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that these documents are complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all of the American Heart Association guidelines for secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own pathways/algorithms based on their own procedures and professional experience.
Patient Education
These documents have been provided to the American Heart Association by the below hospitals as examples of patient education. These documents are available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use patient education. By including these documents on its Web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that these documents are complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all of the American Heart Association guidelines for secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own patient education based on their own procedures and professional experience.
- SCA Prevention: AMI Patient Discharge Contract
- Palomar Medical Center: Patient Education: Living with Heart Failure
- SCA Prevention: HF Patient Discharge Contract
- St. Anthony Hospitals Centura Health: Patient Education: Symptom Tracker
- St. Anthony Hospitals Centura Health: Patient Education: Understanding Heart Failure
- University Hospital Case Medical Center: Living With Heart Failure Brochure (English)
- University Hospital Case Medical Center: Living With Heart Failure Brochure (Spanish)
- University Hospitals Case Medical Center: Heart Failure Education Summary
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: What are Arrhythmias (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: What are Arrhythmias (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Caregiver Information (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Caregiver Information (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Diagnosing Heart Failure (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Diagnosing Heart Failure (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Medicines (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Medicines (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Normal Heart Function (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Normal Heart Function(Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: SCA Patient Fact Sheet (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: SCA Patient Fact Sheet (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Provider Contact Info (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Provider Contact Info (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Patient Post ICD SCA FAQs (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Patient Post ICD SCA FAQs (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Patient Pre ICD SCA FAQs (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Patient Pre ICD SCA FAQs (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Roadmap Better Health (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Roadmap Better Health (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Role of Ejection Fraction (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: Role of Ejection Fraction (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: What is Heart Failure (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: What is Heart Failure (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: What is SCA (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: What is SCA (Spanish)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: What To Do To Manage Heart Failure (English)
- SCA Prevention: Patient Education: What To Do To Manage Heart Failure (Spanish)
- ValleyCare Health System Patient Education Teach Back Tool (including explanation)
- ValleyCare Health System Patient Education Call back form
- ValleyCare Health System Patient Education Heart Failure Zones
- Heart360
- Life's Simple 7
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Mortality Risk Model
These documents have been provided to the American Heart Association by the below hospitals as examples of mortality risk model. These documents are available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use mortality risk model. By including these documents on its Web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that these documents are complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all of the American Heart Association guidelines for secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own mortality risk model based on their own procedures and professional experience.
- Get With The Guidelines-HF Predictors of In Hospital Mortality Poster
Other
These documents have been provided to the American Heart Association by the below hospitals as examples of other clinical tools. These documents are available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use other clinical tools. By including these documents on its Web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that these documents are complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all of the American Heart Association guidelines for secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own other clinical tools based on their own procedures and professional experience.
Other Resources
These documents have been provided to the American Heart Association by the below hospitals as examples of other resources. These documents are available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use other resources. By including these documents on its Web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that these documents are complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all of the American Heart Association guidelines for secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own other resources based on their own procedures and professional experience.
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