Management of Heart Failure in Italian Outpatients Clinics: Observational Study

HF treatment adherence according to the most recent European Guidelines

OPTIMA-HF is an observational, cross-sectional, multicenter, real-life study conducted in two
 different clinical settings: HF outpatients' clinics of Italian University Hospitals and
 territorial Cardiology outpatients' services.
 
 Aim of the Optimization of Therapy in the Italian Management of Heart Failure [OpTIMa-HF]
 Registry is to collect data on HF patients followed in different Italian outpatients'
 settings to describe the current Italian population of HF patients, in terms of demographic
 characteristics and disease features, with a specific focus on guideline-directed medical
 therapy (GDMT) prescription, assessing its improvement after educational activities. In the
 present analysis we report the baseline data on the general enrolled population with a
 specific focus on HFrEF treatment adherence and prescription rates, according to the most
 recent European Guidelines.