Assessing and Improving the Care of Patients With Heart Failure in Ghana: Protocol for a Prospective Observational Study and the Ghana Heart Initiative-Heart Failure Registry

Felix Awindaogo   ¹ , MD, MSc ;   Emmanuel Acheamfour-Akowuah   ² , MD ;   Alfred Doku   ³ , MD, MPH ;   Collins Kokuro   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Francis Agyekum   ^{3 *} , MD, MSc ;   Isaac Kofi Owusu   ⁴ , MD, Prof Dr

¹ Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

² Directorate of Medicine Kumasi, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

³ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Ghana Medical School, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

⁴ Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

*these authors contributed equally