Chronic heart failure: a report from the Dartmouth Diastole Discourses.

On February 28, 2004, a group of investigators and clinician scientists with expertise in the field of heart failure met for 2 days in Woodstock, VT, to discuss the status of the current heart failure nomenclature and to seek a consensus on whether and how this nomenclature might be changed. Despite a wide diversity of expressed opinions, several areas of discussion ultimately led to the consensus expressed in this document.