Journal article
Referral and access to heart function clinics: A realist review
Abstract
RATIONALE, AIM, AND OBJECTIVES: Heart failure (HF) clinics are highly effective, yet not optimally utilized. A realist review was performed to identify contexts (eg, health system characteristics, clinic capacity, and siting) and underlying mechanisms (eg, referring provider knowledge of clinics and referral criteria, barriers in disadvantaged patients) that influence utilization (provider referral [ie, of all appropriate and no inappropriate …
Authors
Fowokan A; Frankfurter C; Dobrow MJ; Abrahamyan L; Mcdonald M; Virani S; Harkness K; Lee DS; Pakosh M; Ross H
Journal
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 949–964
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
August 2021
DOI
10.1111/jep.13489
ISSN
1356-1294