Why the study?
Heart failure is rapidly growing with considerable mortality, morbidity, and costs, making the development of a national heart failure clinics network essential to improve patient outcomes at a national level.
Provides a consensus framework for establishing a national heart failure clinics network to improve patient outcomes.
Supports national rollout of tiered HF clinics; extends European consensus with a practical implementation framework.
Heart failure (HF) is rapidly growing, conferring considerable mortality, morbidity, and costs. Dedicated HF clinics improve patient outcomes, and the development of a national HF clinics network aims at addressing this need at national level. Such a network should respect the existing health care infrastructures, and according to the capacities of hosting facilities, it can be organized into three levels. Establishing the continuous communication and interaction among the components of the network is crucial, while supportive actions that can enhance its efficiency include involvement of multidisciplinary health care professionals, use of structured HF-specific documents, such as discharge notes, patient information leaflets, and patient booklets, and implementation of an HF-specific electronic health care record and database platform.
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A 2020 study conducted a review in Heart failure. National Heart Failure Clinics Network was evaluated. A consensus document from the Hellenic Heart Failure Association outlines the development of a three-level national heart failure clinics network to improve patient outcomes.
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