EHS publications on Heart Failure

Results are published in the European Heart Journal :

• The EuroHeart Failure survey programme - a survey on the quality of care among patients with heart failure in Europe.
  Part 1: patient characteristics and diagnosis.Cleland JGF, Swedberg K, Follath F, Komajda M, Cohen-Solal A, Aguilar JC, Dietz R, Gavazzi A, Hobbs R, Korewicki J, Madeira HC, Moiseyev VS, Preda I, Van Gilst WH, Widimsky J, for the Study Group on Diagnosis of the Working Group on Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology, Freemantle N, Eastaugh J, Mason J Eur Heart J 2003;24:442-463.
  
• The EuroHeart Failure Survey Programme - a survey on the quality of care among patients with heart failure in Europe. Part 2: treatment.Komajda M, Follath F, Swedberg K, Cleland J, Aguilar JC, Cohen-Solal A, Dietz R, Gavazzi A, Van Gilst WH, Hobbs R, Korewicki J, Madeira HC, Moiseyev VS, Preda I, Widimsky J, Freemantle N, Eastaugh J, Mason J; Study Group on Diagnosis of the Working Group onHeart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology .Eur Heart J 2003;24:464-474.
• Differences between patients with a preserved and a depressed left ventricular function: a report from the EuroHeart Failure Survey . Lenzen MJ, Scholte op Reimer WJM, Boersma E, Vantrimpont PJMJ, Follath F, Swedberg K, Cleland J, Komajda M. Eur Heart J 2004;25:1214-1220.
• Under-utilization of evidence based drug treatment in patients with heart failure is only partially explained by dissimilarity to patients enrolled in landmark trials: a report from the Euro Heart Failure Survey. Mattie J. Lenzen, Eric Boersma, Wilma J.M. Scholte op Reimer, Aggie H.M.M. Balk, Michel komajda, Karl Swedberg, Ferenc Follath, Manuel Jimenez-Navarro, Maarten L. Simoons, and John Cleland. European Heart J 2005;26:2706-2713.
• Lenzen MJ, Scholte op Reimer WJM, Komajda M. Differences between patients with a preserved and a depressed left ventricular function : a report from the Euro Heart Failure Survey: reply (Letters to the Editor). Eur heart J 2005;26:526.
• Markku S. Nieminen, Dirk Brutsaert, Kenneth Dickstein, Helmut Drexler, Ferenc Follath, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Matthias Hochadel, Michel Komajda, Johan Lassus, Jose Luis Lopez-Sendon, Piotr Ponikowski and Luigi Tavazzi on behalf of the EuroHeart Survey Investigators . EuroHeart Failure Survey II (EHS II): a survey on hospitalized acute heart failure patients: description of population. Euro H.J. advance access published September 25, 2006.

Other Journals:

• The Euro Heart Failure Survey of the EUROHEART Survey Programme . A survey on the quality of care among patients with heart failure in Europe. Cleland JGF, Swedberg K, Cohen-Solal A, Cosin-Aguilar J, Dietz R, Follath F, Gavazzi A, Hobbs R, Korewicki J, Madeira HC, Preda I, van Gilst WH, Widimsky J, Mareev V, for The study group on Diagnosis of the Working Group on Heart Failure  of the European Society of Cardiology, Mason J, Freemantle N, Eastaugh J, for The Medicines Evaluation Group Centre for Health Economics University of York.  Eur J Heart Fail 2000;2:123-132.
• Drechsler K, Dietz R, Klein H, Wollert KC, Strop D, Mollin J, Zeymer U, Niebauer J .Euro heart failure survey. Medical treatment not in line with current guidelines. Z Kardiol 2005;94:510-5.
• Velavan P, Khan NK, Rigby AS, Goode K, Komajda M, Follath F, Swedberg K, Madeira H, Clark AL, Cleland JG. Relation between severity of left ventricular systolic dysfunction and repolarisation abnormalities on the surface ECG: a report from the Euro heart failure survey . Heart 2006;92:255-6.