Part 1: The Wider Considerations in Translating Heart Failure Guidelines

Abstract

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is an emerging epidemic. Within one generation, the medical community has learned much of CHF syndromes. It has two distinct mechanisms, systolic and diastolic abnormalities, to account for the common CHF presentation. It is complex as it challenges the available health care services, resource, and funding models in providing an equitable service across the health continuum. Despite the improvement in many cardiovascular diseases, some CHF outcomes like readmissions and costs have increased. The reinvigoration of evi-dence-based medicine, the development of health services models of care, and standardisation of disease processes with taxonomies have also occurr..