Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Dashboard-Directed Intervention to Improve Guideline-Directed Heart Failure Therapy for Veterans
Authors' conclusion
The Dashboard Clinic is a viable and potentially effective intervention for GDMT optimization, providing a scalable blueprint for dashboard-directed care.
Study context
- Population
- Veterans with heart failure and gaps in guideline-directed medical therapy identified on the Veterans Affairs heart failure (HF) Dashboardpatients who received the Dashboard Clinic intervention over 1 year
- Participants
- 163 veterans
- Comparison
- Composite optimization score before vs after intervention
- Outcome
- Patient characteristics
Methodological detailssingle Veterans Affairs center, weekly, half-day HF Dashboard Population Health Clinic
- Single Veterans Affairs center
- Weekly, half-day HF Dashboard Population Health Clinic
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
HFrEF
128
78.5%
Not receiving SGLT2i therapy
150
92.0%
Further findings
| Outcome | Before intervention | After intervention | P value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Composite optimization score (patients who qualified for GDMT optimization, N = 107)Increased | 2.10 (SD 1.88) | 2.81 (SD 2.17) | P = 0.018 |
| OS of SGLT2i therapy (patients who qualified for GDMT optimization)Increased | 0.40 (SD 0.80) | 0.74 (SD 0.97) | P = 0.013 |
Guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) initiated via telephone or recommended for initiation
- Patients
- 79 patients (48.5%)
Original publication
Dashboard-Directed Intervention to Improve Guideline-Directed Heart Failure Therapy for Veterans. JACC Adv. Published 15 July 2026. doi:10.
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