Table 3.

Components of a heart failure patient booklet

• Personal data, family and social history, contact details

• Past medical history, co‐morbidities, surgeries and other procedures, allergies and adverse drug reactions, blood transfusions

• HF aetiology, disease course, phenotype, device therapy, hospitalizations for decompensation

• A review of medications and dosing, including possible side effects, need for changes and up‐titration goals

• A clinical assessment of vital signs, cardiac rhythm, functional capacity, 6 min walk test, fluid status, nutritional and cognitive status

• Reports of imaging (echocardiography, chest X‐ray, SPECT, coronary angiography, cardiac ΜRΙ), cardiorespiratory stress test with VO2 max, electrophysiology study and ablation, myocardial biopsy, genetic testing

• Laboratory test results (serum urea, creatinine, electrolytes, haemoglobin, ferritin, TSH, NT proBNP)

• Vaccinations

• Consultation of other specialists

• Free space for special notes