Preventing Hospital Readmissions in Heart Failure with Quality-Focused Learning

Target Audience

Cardiologists, emergency medicine physicians, internists, NPs, PAs, pharmacists

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Define performance measures from the National Quality Forum (NQF) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that are relevant to heart failure (HF) readmissions
Identify patients with HF who are at greatest risk of health complications and hospitalizations
Develop a coordinated multidisciplinary plan for interventions that have been shown to be effective in reducing 30-day hospital readmissions in patients with HF
Identify data available in your clinical setting and metrics your clinical team will use to evaluate performance improvement in HF hospital readmissions