The study tested if patients were more likely to stick to their medicine regimes after nurses coached them on adherence procedures. Patients who received coaching were four times more likely to continue take their medicine than those who did not receive coaching.
However, the heart failure readmission rates showed no significant difference between the two patient groups, which surprised researchers. Bradi B. Granger, RN, PhD, director of the Heart Center Nursing Research Program at Duke, said they need to study other social and economic factors that may contribute to heart failure readmissions.
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