Open Access<p>Identification of Patients with New-Onset Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction in Danish Administrative Registers</p>
Author(s) -
Christian Madelaire,
Finn Gustafsson,
Lars Køber,
Christian TorpPedersen,
Charlotte Andersson,
Søren Lund Kristensen,
Gunnar Gislason,
Morten Schou
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s251710
Subject(s) - danish , medicine , ejection fraction , heart failure , identification (biology) , cardiology , biology , philosophy , linguistics , botany
In Danish administrative registers, ejection fraction (EF) is not recorded, which is a considerable limitation for correct subclassification of patients with heart failure (HF). We hypothesized that a diagnosis of HF combined with the recorded prescription of both renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitors and beta- blockers ( RASi+BB ) within 120 days could identify patients with HF and reduced ejection fraction (EF ≤40%) (HFrEF).