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Using Education To Increase Compliance With Heart Failure Medications, Kara Stout Do, Isaac Navarro Dmd
Using Education To Increase Compliance With Heart Failure Medications, Kara Stout Do, Isaac Navarro Dmd
Internal Medicine
- Approximately 5.7 million adults in the United States have heart failure.
- 25% of individuals die within one year of diagnosis and more than 80% die within 8 years.
- Full adherence to medications may be as low as 30% in heart failure patients.
- Non-compliant patients are two times more likely to be readmitted to the hospital and have a three times higher mortality rate.