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A Case for Task-Shifting in the Management and Care of Patients With Heart Failure in Ghana: Experience From Yale University

  • DZIFA Ahadzi
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    Reprint requests: Dzifa Ahadzi, MBChB, FWACP, Tamale Teaching Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Tamale Teaching Hospital, P.O. Box 16, Tamale, Ghana. Tel: +2 332 431 30038.
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    Department of Medicine, Tamale Teaching Hospital, Tamale, Ghana
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  • Author Footnotes
    ⁎⁎ Coauthor: Michael Beasley, MD, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Cardiovascular Medicine, 79 Wawecus Street, Suite 106, Norwich, CT 06360, USA. Tel: +1 203 361 8665 [email protected].
    MICHAEL Beasley
    Footnotes
    ⁎⁎ Coauthor: Michael Beasley, MD, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Cardiovascular Medicine, 79 Wawecus Street, Suite 106, Norwich, CT 06360, USA. Tel: +1 203 361 8665 [email protected].
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    Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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  • Author Footnotes
    ⁎⁎ Coauthor: Michael Beasley, MD, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Cardiovascular Medicine, 79 Wawecus Street, Suite 106, Norwich, CT 06360, USA. Tel: +1 203 361 8665 [email protected].
Published:January 09, 2023DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2022.12.010
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      The Resident in Training Educational Stipend (RITES) award was instituted by the Ghana Physicians and Surgeons Foundation of North America in 2015. Ghanaian physicians working and living in the United States sponsor the RITES program to enable fellows-in-training from Ghana to benefit from the Yale Partnership for Global Health Program. The program offers an observership and research mentorship experience at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. As the 2022 RITES awardee, author Dzifa Ahadzi shadowed the heart failure (HF) service at Yale University School of Medicine after completing cardiology fellowship training in Accra, Ghana. The following discussion contains some critical thoughts about the care and management of patients with HF in Ghana on the basis of this experience.

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      Publication history

      Published online: January 09, 2023
      Accepted: December 14, 2022
      Received in revised form: December 13, 2022
      Received: September 2, 2022

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2022.12.010

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