| Literature DB >> 19679361 |
Felix Mehrhof, Markus Löffler, Götz Gelbrich, Cemil Ozcelik, Maximilian Posch, Hans-Werner Hense, Ulrich Keil, Thomas Scheffold, Heribert Schunkert, Christiane Angermann, Georg Ertl, Roland Jahns, Burkert Pieske, Rolf Wachter, Frank Edelmann, Kai C Wollert, Bernhard Maisch, Sabine Pankuweit, Raimund Erbel, Till Neumann, Wolfgang Herzog, Hugo Katus, Thomas Müller-Tasch, Christian Zugck, Hans-Dirk Düngen, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Elke Lehmkuhl, Stefan Störk, Uwe Siebert, Jürgen Wasem, Anja Neumann, Alexander Göhler, Stefan D Anker, Friedrich Köhler, Martin Möckel, Karl-Josef Osterziel, Rainer Dietz, Mathias Rauchhaus.
Abstract
Heart failure (HF) has been identified as one of the most threatening diseases for the western civilisation, posing a risk to health for a rising number of patients. Acknowledging the medical problem of HF to be both economically and socially threatening the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) initiated a nationwide research network aiming to find new ways in prevention, alleviation and treatment of the widespread disease. The "Competence Network Heart Failure" (CNHF), initiated in 2003, bundles the scientific expertise in a large-scale research network; its aims are the coordination of basic and applied clinical research as well as dissemination of findings into clinical practice in order to consolidate and perpetuate the achieved improvements. The scope of this paper is to introduce the CNHF and to provide an overview of the tasks and hitherto attained achievements to a broad spectrum of health care providers.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19679361 DOI： 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.06.061
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Cardiol ISSN： 0167-5273 Impact factor: 4.164