The Inotrope Evaluation and Research Patient Registry

Eligible patients will be consented by the site investigator or staff to participate in the Registry at the time of referral for home care. Clinical data, including dosing, symptom severity, lab values, and hospitalizations, along with data on quality-of-life and patient compliance with treatment, will be collected by the home care nurses and pharmacists. The Registry's goal is to significantly contribute to the medical understandings of heart failure treatment and to improve the quality of care for heart failure patients in the United States through active publication of registry findings and disease management approaches.

Inclusion criteria

• Patient must be prescribed inotropic treatment (milrinone, dobutamine or dopamine)
• Patient must be referred to Coram for this treatment in an alternate site of care, either home or infusion suite
• Patient must be willing to receive care and comply with the teaching and training necessary to administer treatment
• Patient is age 18 or over

Exclusion criteria

• Patient is unable to start, or stops taking, inotropic medication
• Patient and/or patient insurance will not cover cost of home inotropic treatment with Coram, or patient elects not to start treatment
• Patient is under the age of 18