Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Optimizing Heart Failure Pathways to Enhance Patient Care: The Program to Optimize Heart Failure Patient Pathways (PRO-HF)
Authors' conclusion
PRO-HF provides a valuable opportunity to identify gaps and significant shortcomings in HF pathways in European hospitals.
Study context
- Population
- Heart failure (HF) care pathways at 10 hospitals in France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands and UK
- Participants
- 10 hospitals
- Outcome
- HF pathway gaps and priority areas at baseline
- Follow-up
- Baseline
Methodological detailsbaseline assessments of a quality-improvement programme, multicentre, 10 hospitals in 6 European countries, digital survey and one-to-one interviews
- Baseline assessments of a quality-improvement programme
- Multicentre
- 10 hospitals in 6 European countries
- Digital survey and one-to-one interviews
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
baseline
Suboptimal specialist care of emergency inpatients: an issue at all hospitals; prioritized at
8 of 10
Availability and accessibility of data on patients, activities and outcomes: an issue at all hospitals; prioritized by
4 of 10
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Optimizing Heart Failure Pathways to Enhance Patient Care: The Program to Optimize Heart Failure Patient Pathways (PRO-HF). ESC Heart Fail. Published 24 June 2024. doi:10.
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