Committee on Heart Failure Surveys & Registries

Mission statement

To promote surveys/registries on heart failure in ESC countries in order to improve the knowledge of the management of this disease across Europe.

Coordinator

Objectives

• Determine the list of registries/surveys of interest to be implemented across ESC countries.This includes acute and chronic heart failure, in and out hospital surveys, heart failure with depressed and preserved ejection fraction, surveys in specific subsets of patients.

• Make recommendations to the HFA Board on:
          a. Priorities.
          b. Timelines.
          c. Specific survey scientific committees.

• Evaluate the feasibility and scientific content of survey proposals. When necessary, propose amendments to the survey coordinator(s).

• Ensure scientific surveillance of the ongoing surveys. This includes recruitment status, analysis plan, publications and communication plans. Special attention will be paid to a comprehensive exploitation of existing databases and to a balanced representation of investigators in authorship.

• Keep the HFA Board informed of the studies in progress on a quarterly basis.

HFA Survey Application Form

Suggestions for potential Surveys or Registries on Heart Failure may be submitted to the Committee on Heart Failure Surveys & Registries using the HFA Survey Application form here.

After completion please return it to Inge Torfs or Barbara Lefèvre hfa@escardio.org