Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 3 , Pages 297-315 , March 2010

Effectiveness of self-management interventions on mortality, hospital readmissions, chronic heart failure hospitalization rate and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure: A systematic review

  • Joanne B. Ditewig

      Affiliations

    • The Dutch institute for Healthcare Improvement, CBO, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Department of Earth and Life Science, Vrije University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: CBO, P.O. Box 20064, 3502 LB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 30 2843953; fax: +31 30 2943644.
    • ,
  • Helene Blok

      Affiliations

    • The Dutch institute for Healthcare Improvement, CBO, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Jeroen Havers

      Affiliations

    • The Dutch institute for Healthcare Improvement, CBO, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Haske van Veenendaal

      Affiliations

    • The Dutch institute for Healthcare Improvement, CBO, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Received 26 May 2009 ,Revised 29 January 2010 ,Accepted 29 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.01.016

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