TY - JOUR AU - Bossone, Eduardo AU - Limongelli, Giuseppe AU - Malizia, Graziella AU - Ferrara, Francesco AU - Vriz, Olga AU - Citro, Rodolfo AU - Marra, Alberto Maria AU - Arcopinto, Michele AU - Bobbio, Emanuele AU - Sirico, Domenico AU - Caliendo, Luigi AU - Ballotta, Andrea AU - D’Andrea, Antonello AU - Frigiola, Alessandro AU - Isgaard, Jorgen AU - Saccà, Luigi AU - Cittadini, Antonio PY - 2015/12/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The T.O.S.CA. Project: Research, Education and Care JF - Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease JA - Monaldi Arch Chest Dis VL - 76 IS - 4 SE - Research Project DO - 10.4081/monaldi.2011.177 UR - https://www.monaldi-archives.org/macd/article/view/177 SP - AB - Despite recent and exponential improvements in diagnostic- therapeutic pathways, an existing “GAP” has been revealed between the “real world care” and the “optimal care” of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). We present the T.O.S.CA. Project (Trattamento Ormonale dello Scompenso CArdiaco), an Italian multicenter initiative involving different health care professionals and services aiming to explore the CHF “metabolic pathophysiological model” and to improve the quality of care of HF patients through research and continuing medical education. ER -