Setting up the Back Home Program for Heart Failure Patients: Perception by Health Professionals and Patients and Outcomes.

Heart failure is a challenge in reducing re-admissions and deaths, particularly high during the first month following hospitalization. In our study, the majority of health professionals seem to support educational programs. The rate of hospital re-admission was 50% and 21.6% for heart failure. Among the factors of re-admission, none corresponded to a therapeutic break or a diet gap. Thus, there was a trend toward shorter re-admissions. These results suggest that the therapeutic education sessions were successful.