Setting Up a Heart Failure Clinic: Ensuring Operational Efficiency

• 21/12/2008

Why was it Decided to Set Up a Heart Failure Clinic at the UZ Middelheim? This hospital is a university affiliated facility with a large interventional cardiovascular programme of more than 4,000 diagnostic coronary angiograms, and more than 2,000 PCIs per year. Over the years, improved prognosis of acute coronary syndromes has led to an increased burden of chronic heart failure. The older...