ESC Heart Fail. 2020 Feb;7(1):15-25. doi: 10.1002/ehf2.12558. Epub 2020 Feb 26.
Heart failure (HF) is rapidly growing, conferring considerable mortality, morbidity, and costs. Dedicated HF clinics improve patient outcomes, and the development of a national HF clinics network aims at addressing this need at national level. Such a network should respect the existing health care infrastructures, and according to the capacities of hosting facilities, it can be organized into three levels. Establishing the continuous communication and interaction among the components of the network is crucial, while supportive actions that can enhance its efficiency include involvement of multidisciplinary health care professionals, use of structured HF-specific documents, such as discharge notes, patient information leaflets, and patient booklets, and implementation of an HF-specific electronic health care record and database platform.
心力衰竭（HF）的发病率迅速上升，导致死亡率、发病率和医疗成本显著增加。专门的心力衰竭诊所可改善患者的预后，而建立全国心力衰竭诊所网络的目的就是在国家层面满足这一需求。该网络应尊重现有的医疗保健基础设施，并根据主办设施的能力，将其组织成三个层次。建立网络各组成部分之间的持续沟通和互动至关重要，而提高其效率的支持性措施包括多学科医疗保健专业人员的参与、使用特定于心力衰竭的结构化文件，如出院记录、患者信息传单和患者手册，以及实施特定于心力衰竭的电子医疗保健记录和数据库平台。
