Impact of a heart failure nurse practitioner service on rehospitalizations, emergency presentations, and survival in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure

Abstract

Aims Heart failure nurse practitioners (HF NPs) are an emerging component of the heart failure (HF) specialist workforce but their impact in an inpatient setting is untested. The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of an inpatient HF NP service on 12- month all-cause rehospitalizations, emergency department (ED) presentations, and mortality in patients hospitalized with HF compared with usual hospital care. Methods and results Retrospective, two-group comparative design involving patients (n= 408) admitted via ED with acute HF to a metropolitan quaternary hospital between January 2013 and August 2017. Doubly robust estimation with augmented inverse probability weighting (DR-AIPW) was ..