Registry for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Patients Admitted to the ER

• The registry will capture information about the medical care that the patient has received including hospital/ emergency department course, major procedures, medication received, emergency room disposition and in hospital death [ Time Frame: Data will be collected, beginning with care in the Emergency Department and ending with the patient's Discharge from the Emergency Department or hospital discharge, transfer to another hospital, or in-hospital death. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  

• Baseline demographic information (age,sex, gender,race), initial evaluation, laboratory results and medical history. [ Time Frame: From admission to the emergency depatment until discharge ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  

This is an Observational (individuals are observed or certain outcomes are measured. no attempt is made to affect the outcome), multi-center registry study of patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) for treatment of known or suspected Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF). Data will be collected on the medical management of patients presenting to the ED who are treated for ADHF in a hospital setting incorporating a disease management program for heart failure. The study will evaluate change in clinical management and outcomes of ADHF patients treated in the ED after ED implementation of three or more components of a disease management program for heart failure. The results are intended to assist hospitals in evaluating and improving quality of care for patients with ADHF by tracking quality indicators and providing site-specific benchmark reports and national benchmark reports. This registry considers patients treated with any therapy for ADHF