Heart failure guidelines and prescribing in primary care across Europe

Table 2 Overall differences in content between guidelines for different target groups

	recommendations*	Identical with ESC [%]	Disagreement [%]	Not specified [%]
Guidelines for†	Specialists (n = 5)	70	19	10
	other (n = 9)	63	13	24
	All (n = 14)	65	16	19

*Each guideline was checked for 16 recommendations and compared to the European guideline (ESC) of 1997
† see Figure 1.

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