Authors/Task Force Members, John J.V. McMurray, Stamatis Adamopoulos, Stefan D. Anker, Angelo Auricchio, Michael Böhm, Kenneth Dickstein, Volkmar Falk, Gerasimos Filippatos, Cândida Fonseca, Miguel Angel Gomez‐Sanchez, Tiny Jaarsma, Lars Køber, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Aldo Pietro Maggioni, Alexander Parkhomenko, Burkert M. Pieske, Bogdan A. Popescu, Per K. Rønnevik, Frans H. Rutten, Juerg Schwitter, Petar Seferovic, Janina Stepinska, Pedro T. Trindade, Adriaan A. Voors, Faiez Zannad, Andreas Zeiher, ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines, Jeroen J. Bax, Helmut Baumgartner, Claudio Ceconi, Veronica Dean, Christi Deaton, Robert Fagard, Christian Funck‐Brentano, David Hasdai, Arno Hoes, Paulus Kirchhof, Juhani Knuuti, Philippe Kolh, Theresa McDonagh, Cyril Moulin, Bogdan A. Popescu, Željko Reiner, Udo Sechtem, Per Anton Sirnes, Michal Tendera, Adam Torbicki, Alec Vahanian, Stephan Windecker, Document Reviewers, Theresa McDonagh, Udo Sechtem, Luis Almenar Bonet, Panayiotis Avraamides, Hisham A. Ben Lamin, Michele Brignole, Antonio Coca, Peter Cowburn, Henry Dargie, Perry Elliott, Frank Arnold Flachskampf, Guido Francesco Guida, Suzanna Hardman, Bernard Iung, Bela Merkely, Christian Mueller, John N. Nanas, Olav Wendelboe Nielsen, Stein Ørn, John T. Parissis, Piotr Ponikowski