Heart failure as a national health problem: the burden of heart failure / Arthur M. Feldman, Virginia Schneider, and Ozlem Soran -- Heart failure guidelines and disease management / David W. Baker -- Managed care and heart failure / Suzette Cardin -- Defining heart failure: systolic versus diastolic dysfunction, differential diagnosis, initial testing / Mariell Jessup -- Serial clinical assessment of the patient with heart failure / Lynne Warner Stevenson -- Treatment goals for heart failure patients in critical care / Anna Gawlinski and Lynne Warner Stevenson -- Managing complicated in-patients: comorbidities and the frail elderly / Lee R. Goldberg -- Transition from hospital to home: interdisciplinary management models / Sara Paul and Kathleen M. McCauley -- Living with heart failure: promoting adherence, managing symptoms, and optimizing function / Nancy M. Albert and Sara Paul --
Pharmacologic management: achieving target doses and managing interactions / David Rabin -- Continuum of care: prevention to end of life / Salpy V. Pamboukian and Nancy M. Albert -- Surgical management of heart failure / David Zeltsman, and Michael A. Acker -- The management of heart failure's electrical complications: device therapy / John M. Fontaine -- Moving ahead with heart failure: what does the future hold? / James B. Young