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Editorial
. 2022 Aug;9(4):2063-2069.
doi: 10.1002/ehf2.13929. Epub 2022 Apr 15.

Therapeutic inertia in the pharmacological management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

Nicolas Girerd  1 , Jean-Jacques Von Hunolstein  2 , Pierpaolo Pellicori  3 , Antoni Bayés-Genís  4 , Tiny Jaarsma  5 , Lars H Lund  6 , Pascal Bilbault  7   8 , Jean-Marc Boivin  1   9 , Tahar Chouihed  10   11 , Jérôme Costa  12 , Jean-Christophe Eicher  13 , Estelle Fall  14 , David Kenizou  15 , Bruno Maillier  16 , Pierre Nazeyrollas  12 , Gérald Roul  17 , Noura Zannad  18 , Patrick Rossignol  1 , Marie-France Seronde  19   20 ; EF-HF Group
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Editorial

Therapeutic inertia in the pharmacological management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

Nicolas Girerd et al. ESC Heart Fail. 2022 Aug.
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Figure 1
Determinants and solutions to therapeutic inertia.
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Figure 2
Tasks that could be delegated to HF‐trained nurses.
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