[Treatment of heart failure in Sweden: progress but not there yet].

Abstract

A growing number of pharmacological and device-based therapies are available to improve well-being and prognosis for patients with heart failure. The increasing complexity of the treatment algorithm also makes implementation of optimal therapy challenging for the healthcare system and the physician. Recent years have seen increasing implementation of heart failure therapies in Sweden, but there is still meaningful room for improvement. Key factors to enable continued progress include knowledge dissemination and clinical decision-support systems that might include alerts and/or »nudging« in the electronic health record system, increased resources to improve the access to heart failure nurses and specialist cardiology care, heart failure registries, and digital/registry-based screening for missed diagnoses or treatment of heart failure.

Affiliated Institutions

• Varberg Hospital SE
• Karolinska University Hospital SE
• Länssjukhuset i Kalmar SE
• Stockholm South General Hospital SE

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