Why the study?
Heart failure is a common, costly, disabling, and generally fatal disorder with increasing hospitalizations and mortality despite advances in treatment, necessitating updated guidelines.
This executive summary provides updated ACC/AHA guidelines for the evaluation and management of chronic heart failure in adults, superseding the 1995 version.
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Refines HF care standards now; extends 1995 framework with synthesized evidence for research.
Hunt et al. (2001) conducted a review in Chronic Heart Failure. Evaluation and management guidelines was evaluated. The ACC and AHA updated the 1995 guidelines for the evaluation and management of chronic heart failure to incorporate new pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment approaches.
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