Physician perceptions, attitudes, and strategies towards implementing guideline-directed medical therapy in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. A survey of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC and the ESC Council for Cardiology Practice

Gianluigi Savarese; Felix Lindberg; Ruxandra M Christodorescu; Marc Ferrini; Thomas Kumler; Konstantinos Toutoutzas; Giuseppe Dattilo; Antoni Bayes-Genis; Brenda Moura; Offer Amir; Mark C Petrie; Petar Seferovic; Ovidiu Chioncel; Marco Metra; Andrew J S Coats; Giuseppe M C Rosano

doi:10.1002/ejhf.3214

Physician perceptions, attitudes, and strategies towards implementing guideline-directed medical therapy in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. A survey of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC and the ESC Council for Cardiology Practice

Eur J Heart Fail. 2024 Mar 22. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.3214. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Gianluigi Savarese^#^{1

2}, Felix Lindberg^#¹, Ruxandra M Christodorescu³, Marc Ferrini⁴, Thomas Kumler^{5

6}, Konstantinos Toutoutzas⁷, Giuseppe Dattilo⁸, Antoni Bayes-Genis^{9

10}, Brenda Moura¹¹, Offer Amir¹², Mark C Petrie¹³, Petar Seferovic¹⁴, Ovidiu Chioncel^{15

16}, Marco Metra¹⁷, Andrew J S Coats¹⁸, Giuseppe M C Rosano^{19

20}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
² Heart, Vascular and Neuro Theme, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Department V Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy V. Babes Timisoara, Institute of Cardiology Research Center, Timișoara, Romania.
⁴ Department of Cardiology and Vascular Pathology, CH Saint Joseph and Saint Luc, Lyon, France.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Herlev-Gentofte University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶ Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁷ First Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 'Hippokration' General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
⁸ Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
⁹ Institut del Cor, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁰ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV; Departamento de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain.
¹¹ Armed Forces Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
¹² Heart Institute, Hadassah Medical Center & Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
¹³ Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, The University Court of the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
¹⁴ University Medical Center, Medical Faculty University of Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia.
¹⁵ Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases 'Prof. C.C. Iliescu', Bucharest, Romania.
¹⁶ University of Medicine Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania.
¹⁷ Cardiology, ASST Spedali Civili, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
¹⁸ Heart Research Institute, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁹ Cardiovascular Clinical Academic Group, St George's University Hospital, London, UK.
²⁰ Cardiology, IRCCS San Raffaele, Rome, Italy.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 38515385
DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.3214

Abstract

27 March 2024: This article published in Early View in error. The article is under embargo and will republish after 11th May 2024.

Keywords: Guideline‐directed medical therapy; Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction; Treatment implementation.