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Presently, there are 110,000 people living with Heart Failure1 with 173 hospitalisations per day.2 This condition accounts for 1 in 50 deaths which equates to 1 person dying of Heart Failure every 3 hours.3

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  • Symptoms worsening in patients are subtle and gradual – and easily missed until patients end up in hospital.
  • Many patients with HF are not optimally treated in primary care4.
  • Compliance with populating medical records for HF patients is variable and often incomplete4.
  • Short consultation times prevent proactive management of a complex comorbid patient.

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The Heart Failure Triage Tool, developed in collaboration wtih Novartis, aims to identify patients with signs and symptoms of Definite, Probable and Possible Heart Failure, and accelerate their movement through the primary health care system towards an intervention. 

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