RiksSvikt (The Swedish Heart Failure Registry, SwedeHF) is a national quality registry that, in addition to quality reporting and improvement, is also well suited for research.
Patients with heart failure are registered in outpatient care and at discharge from hospital. The variables recorded are specified in the CRF. These variables include important comorbidities, vital parameters, echocardiography, ECG, and laboratory data, as well as medication and other treatments.
Outcomes are not recorded directly in RiksSvikt but are available through linkage to registers held by the National Board of Health and Welfare. Thus, RiksSvikt is highly suitable for research on heart failure characteristics and their interrelationships, as well as their associations with prognosis and outcomes.
More than 100 scientific publications based on RiksSvikt (The Swedish Heart Failure Registry) are available,
For any further questions, please contact the research lead Lars Lund at