Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria for management by the HeartFailure@Home service

HeartFailure@Home patient inclusion criteria
(1)	Adult patients in the community with decompensated chronic heart failure who have failed to respond to increasing doses of oral diuretic treatment
(2)	Inpatients with decompensated heart failure receiving IV diuretics who were willing and able to complete their IV diuretic treatment on an outpatient basis
HeartFailure@Home patient exclusion criteria
(3)	Patients with haemodynamic instability or new oxygen requirement
(4)	Episode of decompensation deemed secondary to a new or uncontrolled atrial arrhythmia
(5)	Decompensated heart failure associated with acute kidney injury
(6)	Patients who require admission due to another acute medical illness
(7)	Patients with untreated severe valvular heart disease unless already assigned to a palliative management strategy
(8)	Patients unwilling to receive treatment as an outpatient
(9)	Patients requiring additional functional or social support which was not feasible to arrange in the community setting