Importance Adoption of guideline-directed medical therapy for patients with heart failure is
variable. Interventions to improve guideline-directed medical therapy have failed to …

Background—A treatment gap exists between heart failure (HF) guidelines and the clinical
care of patients. The Registry to Improve the Use of Evidence-Based Heart Failure …

BACKGROUND: Heart failure is a prevailing diagnosis of hospitalization and readmission
within 6 months, and nearly a quarter of these patients die within a year. Guideline-directed …

Background Despite evidence-based national guidelines for optimal treatment of heart
failure (HF), the quality of care remains inadequate. We sought to evaluate the effect of a …

Background—Participation in clinical registries is nonrandom, so participants may differ in
important ways from nonparticipants. The extent to which findings from clinical registries can …

Background—Hospitals enrolled in the American Heart Association's Get With The
Guidelines Program for heart failure (GWTG-HF) have improved their process of care …

Importance Multiple guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure with reduced
ejection fraction (HFrEF) are available and promoted by performance measures. However …

Evidence-based consensus treatment guidelines are available to assist physicians with the
management of chronic heart failure (HF). Although it has been generally presumed that …

Background Patients hospitalized with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction have
high risk of rehospitalization or death. Despite guideline recommendations based on high …

Despite the availability of lifesaving guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for heart
failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), there remain major gaps in utilization of these …