Heart failure registries: how far can we go?

In this article, the author focuses on European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Long-Term Registry (ESC-HF-LT), its follow-up outcomes and differences across regions. Topics include role of heart failure (HF) registries in providing epidemiological data, need for crosstalk between clinical trials and heart failure registries and need for registries to provide the data for cost analyses. Other topics include role of therapeutic recommendations in determining requirements in health care.