Snapshot Study on Patients With Heart Failure

Global Registries And Surveys Programme - Heart Failure Snapshot Study (GRASP-HF)

The goal of this observational study is to provide a better understanding of medical practice for heart failure management based on real-world data, collected both across Europe and the rest of the world, using robust methodology and representativeness within each country.

Standard management of patients will be the diagnostic and therapeutic interventions routinely performed in each center for patients presenting with signs and symptoms of chronic/acute 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).