Table 1 Characteristics of 10 selected clinical home care guidelines for HF patients in the study
From: A systematic review on clinical guidelines of home health care in heart failure patients
Guideline (year) | Organisation | Country or region | Target users | Guideline writers | Standardized level of evidence | Search strategy for evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adapting heart failure guideline for nursing care in home health settings (2014) Update 2014 [27] | University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing | USA | Home care nurses | Multidisciplinary | A, B, or C | Systematic literature review, modified the existing HFSA and AHA HF CPGs |
Practical guide on Home Health in HF patients (2012) Update 2012 [19] | University of Southern Denmark | Europe | Home care nurses, clinicians | Multidisciplinary | not mentioned | literature review, Survey of European heart failure management programmes, Opinion of researchers and practitioners |
Chronic heart failure in adults: diagnosis and management NICE Footnote 1 (2018) Update 2018 [28] | The National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions/National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence | United Kingdom | primary and secondary healthcare professionals | Multidisciplinary | Ia Ib IIa IIb III IV NICE Footnote 2 | Systematic literature review |
Guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of chronic heart failure in Australia (2018) Update 2018 [29] | National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand | Australia | general practitioners •general physicians, cardiologists, registrars and hospital resident medical officers •nurses and other allied health professionals •educators | Multidisciplinary | A, B, or C | Systematic literature review |
CCS Footnote 3 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure (2017) Update 2021 [30] | Canadian Cardiovascular Society | Canada | clinicians, policymakers, and health systems | Multidisciplinary | High Quality EvidenceModerate Quality Evidence Low Quality Evidence | systematic review, primary and secondary panels |
Management of chronic heart failure SIGN Footnote 4 (2016) revalidated in 2019 [31] | Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network | Scotland | healthcare professional cardiac nurses, cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, general practitioners, pharmacists, psychologists, patients, carers, voluntary organisations and policy makers | Multidisciplinary | 1++ 1+ 1 – 2++ 2+ 2 – 3 | Systematic literature review |
ESC Footnote 6 Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure (2016) Update 2016 [32] | European Society of Cardiology | Europe | Health professionals | Multidisciplinary | Classes of recommendations I II IIa IIb III LOE A, B, or C | Systematic literature review |
AHA /ACCF Footnote 7 Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure(2013) Update 2021 [33] | American College of Cardiology Foundation /American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) | USAFootnote 8 | physicians and nurse | Multidisciplinary | LOEFootnote 9 A, B, or CFootnote 10 | Systematic literature review |
HFSA Footnote 11 Comprehensive Heart Failure Practice Guideline (2010) Update 2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA [34] | Heart Failure Society of America | USA | physicians and a nurse | Multidisciplinary | LOE A, B, or C | Systematic literature review |
ICSI Footnote 12 Palliative Care for Adults (2020) Update 2020 [35] | Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement | USA | primary and specialty care providers | Multidisciplinary | High Quality Evidence Moderate Quality Evidence Low Quality Evidence | Systematic literature review |