Stage 1: Reports

Understanding the needs, expectations and challenges of those who, on a daily basis, strive to provide evidence-based care to heart failure patients and their families is a critical step toward successful dissemination and implementation of guidelines. By end users we mean cardiovascular specialists, community cardiologists, internal medicine physicians, geriatricians, nurses, pharmacists and patients and their families.

The Heart Failure Consensus Conference Recommendations Program provided CCS with its first-ever opportunity to undertake a thorough needs assessment of these various end-users. Surveys, questionnaires and one-on-interviews were conducted across three pilot representative sites.

Both the Executive Summary and complete report of this needs assessment are provided here.