Pharmacist-led guideline-directed medical therapy in heart failure: impact analysis in primary care.

ABSTRACT: Optimal guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) can reduce mortality, unplanned hospital admissions and improve quality of life for patients suffering from heart failure (HF). However, GDMT remains underused in primary care. Only a minority of patients on HF registers receive optimal GDMT in the UK. This suboptimal care is compounded by a mounting lack of GP capacity and the growing burden of HF.A multisite, quantitative impact analysis was undertaken to evaluate the optimisation of HF patients by a novel pharmacist-led GDMT model in UK primary care.We identified low-risk HF patients suitable for pharmacists' input, including a community validated risk stratification tool-the HF Event STrengthening Score. The primary outcome was to compare the proportion of patients on optimal HF GDMT at

SUBMITTER: Schichtel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12406906 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature