Effect of Moderate or Intensive Disease Management Program on Outcome in Patients With Heart Failure<subtitle>Coordinating Study Evaluating Outcomes of Advising and Counseling in Heart Failure (COACH)</subtitle>

Abstract

Neither moderate nor intensive disease management by a nurse specializing in management of patients with HF reduced the combined end points of death and hospitalization because of HF compared with standard follow-up. There was a nonsignificant, potentially relevant reduction in mortality, accompanied by a slight increase in the number of short hospitalizations in both intervention groups. Clinical Trial Registry http://trialregister.nl Identifier: NCT 98675639.