Comprehensive Heart Failure Practice Guideline 

2006 HFSA Comprehensive Heart Failure Practice Guidelines Web Site

Heart failure (HF) is a syndrome characterized by high mortality, frequent hospitalization, reduced quality of life, and a complex therapeutic regimen. Knowledge about HF is accumulating so rapidly that individual clinicians may be unable to readily and adequately synthesize new information into effective strategies of care for patients with this syndrome. Trial data, though valuable, often do not give direction for individual patient management. These characteristics make heart failure an ideal candidate for practice guidelines.

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This Pocket Guide includes all of the recommendations from the HFSA 2006 Comprehensive Heart Failure Practice Guideline. It has been designed as a quick reference, not as a replacement for the full-text version - released 09/16/2006.

Heart Failure Practice Guideline Key Recommendation Slide Set

This set of core slides, based on the 2006 HFSA Comprehensive Heart Failure Practice Guideline (JCF 2006;6:1e-199e), has been developed as a resource for speakers. The set includes 52 slides of selected key recommendations and slides of studies supporting those recommendations.
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