Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Facilitators, Barriers, and Insights Using an HFA-PEFF-Based Clinical Decision Support System: A Proof-of-Concept Study
Authors' conclusion
The CDSS demonstrated reasonable effectiveness in diagnosing and classifying patients with symptoms of HF if the measured EF was ≥50%. The conducted survey highlighted that physician education, in both CDSS- and HFpEF-related domains, is a key factor in the battle against HFpEF.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with symptoms and/or signs of heart failure (HF) and ejection fraction (EF) ≥50%, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases of Vojvodina, Serbia; physicians surveyed on the clinical decision support system (CDSS)
- Participants
- 225 patients
- Outcome
- HFA-PEFF-based CDSS: probable HFpEF and clinical documentation
Methodological detailsretrospective component, prospective electronic survey, single-centre, Conducted over 1 year
- Retrospective component
- Prospective electronic survey
- Single-centre
- Conducted over 1 year
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
HFA-PEFF score 5-6 (probable HFpEF)
194
86.2%
HFpEF documented in discharge report among those with probable HFpEF
32
16.5%
Survey response rate
83.3%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Facilitators, Barriers, and Insights Using an HFA-PEFF-Based Clinical Decision Support System: A Proof-of-Concept Study. ESC Heart Fail. Published 14 August 2025. doi:10.
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