Estudio gallego de insuficiencia cardiaca en atención primaria (estudio GALICAP)

Health-related quality of life in unselected outpatients with heart failure across Spain in two different health care levels. Magnitude and determinants of impairment: The INCA study

“…There is agreement that some diagnostic inaccuracy in occasional individual patients is inescapable in the present state of our knowledge of HF even if, on the whole, the diagnosis of HF were correct for most patients when INCA criteria were followed. Besides, this finding agrees with recent data published in Spain were HF with preserved EF was present in 61% of patients [26].…”

Morbidity and mortality among heart failure patients in Galicia, N.W. Spain: the GALICAP study

“…The characteristics of the GALICAP sample upon admission to the study have been published elsewhere [16]. Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of the 1195 patients included in the study.…”

“…The characteristics of the GALICAP sample upon admission to the study have been published elsewhere [16]. HF outpatients in Galicia are typically of advanced age (mean 76 years), rather more than half are women (52%), 82% have a history of arterial hypertension (HT), 61% [of those examined by echocardiography] have preserved systolic function [left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) N 50%], and there is a high prevalence of diabetes and associated pathologies such as atrial fibrillation, kidney failure and anaemia.…”

Validation of heart failure diagnosis registered in primary care records in two primary care centres in Barcelona (Spain) and factors related. A cross-sectional study

“…Even though HF diagnosis requires demonstrating cardiac dysfunction, it has been reported that 20% to 40% of HF patients had not had an echocardiogram registered in their primary care medical records [ 4 , 6 , 12 ]. Based on these data, in previous studies [ 11 , 13–17 ], HF diagnosis had been confirmed in 35% to 85% of the registered cases.…”