[Importance of therapeutic education in the multidisciplinary management of heart failure]

Heart failure is a severe disease with high morbidity and mortality rates. The interest for multidisciplinary heart failure patient management is increasing in order to improve prescription of medical therapies and to allow a better quality of life. Proofs of reduction in morbi-mortality exist and some models of management have been assessed. The most important point remains the major role of therapeutic education. Training of health care professionals is needed. Tools for therapeutic education have been created and can be associated with complementary informative means. All these elements allow that a new approach of heart failure takes in place in France.