Ontario Health's Heart Failure: Care in the Community for Adults quality standard addresses care for adults who have heart failure, including
the assessment and diagnosis of people with suspected heart failure. It applies
to community settings, including primary care, specialist care, home care,
hospital outpatient clinics, and long-term care.
This quality standard does not address care provided in
hospital emergency departments or inpatient settings. It does not discuss heart
failure related to congenital cardiac conditions. It also does not address the
primary prevention of heart failure, although it does provide guidance on risks
and lifestyle factors that may affect the progression of heart failure.
New Pathway
The Heart Failure: Care in the Community for Adults quality
standard has been summarized into a
pathway to help those implementing it to
envision an ideal future-state model of care for people living with heart
failure.
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