Optimizing heart failure pathways to enhance patient care: the Program to Optimize Heart Failure Patient Pathways (PRO-HF).

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Many European healthcare providers struggle to adopt multidisciplinary, integrated care pathways for people with heart failure (HF) as recommended by the European Society of Cardiology. PRO-HF (Program to Optimize Heart Failure Patient Pathways) was developed to help clinicians identify strengths, gaps, and shortcomings in their HF pathways and support tailored interventions to optimize pathways and enhance patient care. We report initial findings from baseline assessments of HF pathway characteristics and challenges from 10 hospitals in six European countries (France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, and United Kingdom).

Methods and results

Baseline assessments were holistic appraisals of full HF services to calibrate current status and development needs and

SUBMITTER: Patwala A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11424341 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature