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Teach-Back Education In Heart Failure Patients Benchmark Study, Bethany N. Johnson Apr 2023

Teach-Back Education In Heart Failure Patients Benchmark Study, Bethany N. Johnson

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Heart failure exasperation is one of the most common causes of hospital readmission in the United States (Breathett et al., 2018). It is estimated that greater than half of all heart failure patients will be readmitted to the hospital within six months of discharge (Caluya, 2021). Additionally, one in four individuals with heart failure are readmitted within thirty days of discharge (Rahmani et al., 2020). This data shows a large area of improvement for hospitals in order to improve patient outcomes. Due to the lack of standardized discharge teaching, heart failure patients are often admitted to the hospital for the …