Stage 3: Program Specifications

This first cycle of the CCS Heart Failure Consensus Conference confirmed the need to bring recommendations closer to the community by developing initiatives that would complement the traditional annual publication of the guidelines in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.

The purpose of Stage 3 is to lay out, in detail, the requirements and processes for the tools to fulfill the mandate set out in the Heart Failure Needs Assessment (Stage 1) report recommendations. For each selected tool, the program specifications will describe the purpose, goal, audience, format, content and media required.

The program specifications, used by the Primary Panel and the Core Development Team, will translate the guidelines into easy-to-use tools.