Does enrollment in a quality registry improve adherence to guideline-recommended therapies and clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure?
Enrollment in a heart failure quality registry is associated with better guideline adherence and improved clinical outcomes, though registry patients may not represent the broader HF population.
Enrollment in the SwedeHF registry occurred in a minority of patients, and was associated with better adherence to guideline-recommended HF therapies and fewer major cardiovascular events and lower mortality. The generalizability of these HF registry findings to all HF patients was, however, limited.
González-Ortíz et al. (Wed,) studied this question.