Evaluation of a Primary Care Based Heart Failure Management Program

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Patients with terminal illness (e.g. cancer) with a life expectancy of less than one year.
• •2. Patients in a long-term-care facility with nursing care.
• •3. Patients awaiting cardiac surgery for correctable causes of HF (e.g., severe valvular disease or extensive ischemia) during the study period.
• •4. Patients expected to be away from the country during the intervention period for a duration of \>3 months.
• •5. Patients unable or refusing to sign consent.
• •6. Patients currently followed in the Hamilton Health Sciences HF clinic. These patients are excluded as they are currently enrolled in a HF disease management strategy.
• •7. Patients currently enrolled in another clinical trial.