Heart failure (HF) management requires clinicians, patients, and caregivers to form
a strong partnership and develop individualized treatment goals based on patients’
values and preferences. To ensure success in this shared decision-making process,
it is important that patients and caregivers have a thorough understanding of the
HF disease trajectory as well as treatment options available at each step. The recent
publication of the “Universal Definition and Classification of Heart Failure” in the
Journal of Cardiac Failure
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proposes a cohesive framework that could potentially be used to facilitate this partnership
and provides much needed consensus and clarification to the HF journey.- Bozkurt B
- Coats AJ
- Tsutsui H
- et al.
Universal definition and classification of heart failure: a report of the Heart Failure
Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology,
Japanese Heart Failure Society and Writing Committee of the Universal Definition of
Heart Failure.
J Card Fail. 2021 Mar 1 [Epub ahead of print]; (S1071-9164(21)00050-6)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2021.01.022
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Meg Fraser, DNP, ANP-C, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Colleen K. McIlvennan, PhD, DNP, ANP-C, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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Publication history
Published online: February 11, 2022
Accepted:
January 29,
2022
Received:
January 20,
2022
Publication stage
In Press Journal Pre-ProofIdentification
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