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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on June 9, 2008
European Heart Journal 2008 29(14):1706-1708; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn256
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Best practice for chronic heart failure patients—writing guidelines is not enough

Martin A. Denvir1,* and Stephen J. Leslie2

1 Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK
2 Highland Heartbeat Centre, Cardiac Unit, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness IV2 3UJ, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel: +44 1315371846, Fax: +44 1315371846, Email: mdenvir@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

This editorial refers to ‘Awareness and perception of heart failure among European cardiologists, internists, geriatricians, and primary care physicians’{dagger} by W.J. Remme et al., on page 1739

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The questionnaire survey of SHAPE (Survey of Heart failure Awareness and Perception in Europe)1 examined attitudes to diagnosis and management of chronic heart failure (CHF) among 6887 European physicians. Overall the findings are important because of the large number of respondents to the questionnaire [2965 primary care physicians (PCPs), 2041 cardiologists, and 1881 internists and geriatricians] from nine European countries. It may come as no surprise to the typical reader of this journal that the authors conclude that CHF guidelines are not being applied consistently by PCPs and are variably applied by internists and geriatricians. Cardiologists appear to be performing well in most aspects of diagnosis but fall short of optimal care for some aspects of management. However, the overall response rate was low (13%) . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Awareness and perception of heart failure among European cardiologists, internists, geriatricians, and primary care physicians
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