Identify Issues With Heart Failure Regimens

September 2024

Many patients with heart failure are readmitted within 30 days of hospital discharge...often due to medication-related problems.

Many patients with heart failure need to be on an ACE inhibitor (lisinopril, etc), ARB (losartan, etc), or sacubitril/valsartan (Entresto)...a beta-blocker (carvedilol, etc)...an aldosterone antagonist (spironolactone, etc)...plus an SGLT2 inhibitor (dapagliflozin, etc).

This “quadruple therapy” helps improve outcomes and survival...but fewer than 1 in 6 patients get these medications.

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