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Ralph Oudem
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne; general practitioner with expertise in chronic disease management and heart failure.
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Jul 23, 2026
When and How Should I Optimize Heart Failure Treatments for My Patients?
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Carolyn LamHOST
I'd really like to ask you, Ralph, in your experience, from a primary care perspective, what happens in that gap?
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7:38Ralph OudemGUEST
The communication between hospitals on discharge into the primary care settings needs to be improved.
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7:50Ralph OudemGUEST
I mean, there are some key initiatives that are happening in some of our regions, like Queensland, that are really making a difference.
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7:56Ralph OudemGUEST
But, you know, as you said, if people are discharged from hospital and they're not on guideline-directed medical therapy, the first thing the GP's gonna ask is, "Well, why didn't they start that tablet in hospital? There must be a reason for them not to start it." So that communication about when to titrate after they've been admitted I think is really clear.
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