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Great posting Ebony! as you mentioned non-compliance with treatment and other lifestyle recommendation is a major issue in patients with CHF. In order to improve patient’s survival rate and quality of life health care professionals need to establish interventions that can increase compliance. Unfortunately, noncompliant patients are usually less educated, low income, and elderly. There has to be more involvement of health care professionals in patient education which should be based on establishing relationship with the patients to gain their trust and their understanding of importance to adherence to treatment

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