Guideline‐directed medical therapy for heart failure does not exist: a non‐judgmental framework for describing the level of adherence to evidence‐based drug treatments for patients with a reduced ejection fraction
Numerous guideline documents have issued recommendations to clinicians concerning the treatment of chronic heart failure and a reduced ejection fraction. However, guidelines do not describe what constitutes an acceptable standard of care, and thus, practitioners who adhere to only a small fraction o...
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Veröffentlicht in: | European journal of heart failure 2020-10, Vol.22 (10), p.1759-1767 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Numerous guideline documents have issued recommendations to clinicians concerning the treatment of chronic heart failure and a reduced ejection fraction. However, guidelines do not describe what constitutes an acceptable standard of care, and thus, practitioners who adhere to only a small fraction of the recommendations might claim that they are treating patients ‘in accordance with the guidelines’. As a result, |
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ISSN: | 1388-9842 1879-0844 1879-0844 |
DOI: | 10.1002/ejhf.1857 |