Congestive Heart Failure Collaborative - Resources

CHF Toolbox

A CD ROM is available that contains copies of various tools developed during the Province-wide CHF Collaborative in 2004. These are available to help clinics throughout BC improve care for patients with CHF. You are welcome to copy and modify these materials.

Click here to download the entire toolbox

Clinical

For General Practitioner's Office Use

Correspondence

Additional Resources

Patient Education Resource Materials

Clinical

• Beta Blocker Titration Guideline
• Beta Blocker Titration Spreadsheet
• Official Nursing Protocol - Furosemide Titration
• Furosemide Titration Guideline
• Self-Titration of Furosemide
• Diuretic Titration Table
• Self-Titration form
• Patient Information - Medications
• Effects of Adding B-Blockers or Angiotensin Receptor Blockers vs Increasing ACE Inhibitor Dose in HF
• Determination of "Heart Failure"

For General Practitioners Office Use

• CHF Flowsheet
• Teaching Guidelines - Surrey Memorial Hospital
• Personal Action Plan - Burnaby Hospital
• PDSA Spreadsheet
• Patient Teaching Log
• Resources for People with Heart Failure - A Guide for Patients
• Script for IRRP Datasheet
• IRRP Datasheet
• Cardiology Consult Form
• Patient Education Record
• Patient Survey - Combined Nurse/Physician Visit
• Patient Questionnaire - Visit with RN
• Patient Questionnaire - Visit with Dietician
• Patient Questionnaire - Visit with Pharmacist
• Nurse Integration PDSA Cycle
• Viability of Nurse Integration under Fee-for-Service
• Personal Health File
• End of Life Choices

Correspondence

• Notification, CHF Collaborative
• Notification of Collaborative Participation, Dr. Richard Welsh
• Group Medical Appointment Letter, Mid-Main Medical Clinic
• Group Consultation Form, Chase Primary Health Care Org.
• Patient Notification of Collaborative Participation, VIHA

Additional Resources

These materials supplement those on the Toolbox CD.

Patient Education Resource Materials

• Resources for People with Heart Failure - A Guide for Patients
• Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee - Heart Failure Care
• Guide For Self-Management Goal Setting For B.C. CHF Collaborative
• Salt Savy CHF patient education booklet
• Self-Management Support Tool
• CHF Management Plan
• Patient Reminders

Working Documents

• The CHF Collaborative Pre-work Package
• Quality Improvement - Spread
• Quality Improvement - Sustainability
• Province-Wide CHF Collaborative Flow Sheet / Encounter Form
• Introducing 'BNP' into the B.C. CHF Collaborative

Health Authority Tools

• Template for Assessment of Team Progress
• Sustainability and Spread Round Table
• Quality Improvement - Operations