In hospitalized HFrEF patients, prehospitalization quadruple therapy was significantly lacking, with only modest improvements in GDMT and high discontinuation rates post-discharge.
What are the contemporary utilization patterns of guideline-directed medical therapy among patients hospitalized for heart failure in the United States?
Despite established guidelines, there are significant gaps in the initiation and maintenance of guideline-directed medical therapy for heart failure in contemporary US practice.
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Among patients hospitalized for HFrEF in contemporary US clinical practice, there were significant gaps in prehospitalization quadruple therapy and only modest GDMT improvement post-discharge, with delayed initiation and high discontinuation rates. Similar patterns were observed with SGLT2i among patients with HFmrEF and HFpEF.
Greene et al. (Tue,) reported a other. In hospitalized HFrEF patients, prehospitalization quadruple therapy was significantly lacking, with only modest improvements in GDMT and high discontinuation rates post-discharge.