Registry Study “HOSTA CHF”: Characterization of the State of the Chronic Heart Failure Treatment Delivery System in Russian Federation Regions: Revealing, Diagnostics, Treatment, Observation

Among the main priorities of the healthcare system is the problem of chronic heart failure (CHF). It is critically important to assess and reduce the incidence of CHF, improve the treatment of patients with CHF, increase the duration and quality of their life, and reduce the related financial burden. One of the approaches for monitoring the medical care in CHF patients is conducting a large, long-term observational registry study involving multiple medical organizations, with inclusion of the maximum number of patients with documented CHF, assessing continuity, diagnosis and treatment, adherence to treatment, the possibility of algorithmic selection of patients for high-tech medical care and preferential drug provision, morbidity among working/non-working, able-bodied/disabled patients, and assessing the quality of dispensary observation. This article announces a prospective-retrospective observational registry study "HOSTA CHF" (Characteristics Of the State of the sysTem of providing cAre to patients with Chronic Heart Failure in the regions of the Russian Federation: detection, diagnosis, treatment, observation), initiated at the Chazov National Medical Research Center of Cardiology.