Despite the fact that detailed and updated guidelines are regularly published on how to diagnose and treat patients with Heart Failure (HF), many patients do not fulfil the diagnostic criteria and are not treated with recommended drugs and if so not in dosages used in the large controlled studies. The Swedish Heart Failure registry (S-HFR or RiksSvikt) was created in order to give the participating units knowledge about how they diagnosed and treated their patients and to give indications on where further efforts were needed in order to give patients with heart failure optimal management.

S-HFR is an Internet-based registry, where participating units directly on-line can register their HF-patients or transfer data from standardized forms or from computerized patients documentations