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A Pilot Study: Observations Of Patients Participating In Heart Failure Shared Medical Appointments While Receiveing Nutrition Education, Hannah Hugo Jan 2020

A Pilot Study: Observations Of Patients Participating In Heart Failure Shared Medical Appointments While Receiveing Nutrition Education, Hannah Hugo

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The purpose of this pilot project was to examine descriptive statistics from patients who participated in heart failure (HF) shared medical appointments (SMAs) at a mid-sized heart center in the Northwest, in which nutrition education was provided by an RD. Information collected included blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), weight, scores from the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure (MLHF) Survey, and the Atlanta Heart Failure Knowledge (AHFK) questionnaire. Due to small sample size and lack of control group, simple descriptive statistics, such as mean and median were used to examine the data. Three of the participants were female and 4 …