Snapshot Study on Patients With Heart Failure

Information collected by the GRASP-HF study assesses adherence to the ESC HF Guidelines focusing on Quality Indicators, in both chronic and acute HF.

For that reason, the GRASP-HF snapshot study is evolving in parallel with the long-term Heart Failure Association initiative - ICARe-HF: the Improving Care through Accreditation and Recognition in Heart Failure (ICARe-HF) programme. ICARe-HF is an international accreditation programme for heart failure centres which is about improving patient outcomes by raising standards in care facilities and recognising those that apply best practices. The GRASP-HF snapshot study serves to verify the performance of individual centres through data collection of real-world patient data.

Inclusion criteria

Adult patients with chronic or acute Heart Failure (HF), regardless of ejection fraction, either:

• Outpatient with chronic HF (including first-time diagnosis), according to the clinical judgment.

OR

• Patients admitted to hospital or presenting to Emergency Department or Acute out-patient care for acute HF for whom an IV (diuretics, inotropes, vasodilators) or mechanical therapy for HF (mechanical circulatory support) is administered.

Exclusion criteria

• Age <18 years
• Patients unwilling to consent (or patient's legally authorized representative unwilling to consent, if the patient is unable to consent).