Treating fatigue and depressionin patients with heart failure may ultimately lead to fewer hospital stays, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC).
Researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock investigated the complex relationship between fatigue, depression and gender in patients with heart failure and the effect on hospitalization.
“Our research provides a good picture of the relationships of fatigue and depression to all-cause hospitalizations of heart failure patients,” said co-author Seongkum Heo, R.N., Ph.D., associate professor at the UAMS College of Nursing.
“Fatigue needs to be addressed in patients with heart failure, and depression needs to be managed, especially in women. Doing so could help reduce hospitalizations, improve outcomes and lower costs.”
For the study, researchers reviewed the data of 9,869 patients who had been hospitalized for any reason at UAMS with a diagnosis of heart failure during a three-year period from the beginning of 2010 to the end of 2012.
[For more of this story, written by Traci Pedersen, go to http://psychcentral.com/news/2...tal-stay/112452.html]
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