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European Journal of Heart Failure 2005 7(7):1077-1078; doi:10.1016/j.ejheart.2005.10.015
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© 2005 European Society of Cardiology

Heart failure management programmes: The time for action has arrived

Anna Strömberg*

Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden and Department of Medicine and Care, Nursing Science, Linköping University S-581 85 Linköping, Sweden

* Tel.: +46 13 227762; fax: +46 13 123285. E-mail address: annst@imv.liu.se

Received September 9, 2005;
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There is a time for everything and a season for every activity. A time for landmark studies designing and testing new interventions, a time for confirming studies and meta-analyses and a time for implementation of successful interventions into clinical practice.

The economic impact of heart failure and the burden of the disease to patients and their caregivers continue to increase despite advances in pharmacological therapy. Individuals with moderate to severe systolic dysfunction still have a very poor prognosis with more than one third of patients hospitalised yearly and dying within 1 year of hospitalisation [1,2]. The heart failure population . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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