title: [The Danish National Quality Project about heart failure indicates lack of reporting and treatment of the elderly].
abstract: The Danish National Quality Project about heart failure has improved care for the patients considerably by insisting on evidence-based treatment in hospitals and heart failure clinics. Regrettably, according to data there is marked underrepresentation of patients 75-year-old and older, and especially a lack of women in this age group in the project. This discrimination towards the elderly and especially towards elderly women could possibly be solved by out-of-hospital-screening for heart failure among these patients.
authors.affiliation: Kardiologisk Afdeling, Roskilde Sygehus, Køgevej 7-13, 4000 Roskilde. E-mail: llole@regionsjaelland.dk.
authors.forename: Line Lisbeth
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Olesen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012042:Registries; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014930:Women