Age- and sex-specific trends in fatal incidence and hospitalized incidence of stroke in Scotland, 1986 to 2005.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current guidelines recommend surgical revascularization (coronary artery bypass graft [CABG]) over percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with diabetes mellitus and multivessel coronary artery disease. Few data are available describing revascularization patterns among these patients in the sett...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Pandey A,McGuire DK,de Lemos JA,Das SR,Berry JD,Brilakis ES,Banerjee S,Marso SP,Barsness GW,Simon DN,Roe M,Goyal A,Kosiborod M,Amsterdam EA,Kumbhani DJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mobile health technologies are low cost, scalable interventions with the potential to promote patient engagement and behavior change. We aimed to test whether a culturally sensitive text messaging intervention supporting secondary prevention improves the control of risk factors in patients with coronary hear...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Zheng X,Spatz ES,Bai X,Huo X,Ding Q,Horak P,Wu X,Guan W,Chow CK,Yan X,Sun Y,Wang X,Zhang H,Liu J,Li J,Li X,Spertus JA,Masoudi FA,Krumholz HM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for stable coronary artery disease does not reduce the risk of death and myocardial infarction compared with optimal medical therapy (OMT), but many patients think otherwise. PCI Choice, a decision aid (DA), was designed for use during the clinical visit and includes ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Coylewright M,Dick S,Zmolek B,Askelin J,Hawkins E,Branda M,Inselman JW,Zeballos-Palacios C,Shah ND,Hess EP,LeBlanc A,Montori VM,Ting HH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Conducting randomized controlled trials to investigate survival in a rare disease like pulmonary arterial hypertension has considerable ethical and logistical constraints. In many studies, such as the Study with an Endothelin Receptor Antagonist in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension to Improve Clinical Outcome...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Torbicki A,Bacchi M,Delcroix M,Farber HW,Ghofrani HA,Hennessy B,Jansa P,Mehta S,Perchenet L,Pulido T,Rosenberg D,Rubin LJ,Sastry BKS,Simonneau G,Sitbon O,Souza R,Wei LJ,Channick R,Benza R

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most studies evaluating neurocognitive outcomes in children with congenital heart defects (CHD) have focused on high-risk patients or used specialized, resource-intensive testing. To determine the association of CHD with academic outcomes and compare outcomes according to the severity of CHD, we linked state...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Oster ME,Watkins S,Hill KD,Knight JH,Meyer RE

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common and costly problem among older persons. The frequency of AF increases with age, but representative national data about incidence and prevalence are limited. We examined the annual incidence, prevalence, and mortality associated with AF among older persons. METHODS AND RE...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Piccini JP,Hammill BG,Sinner MF,Jensen PN,Hernandez AF,Heckbert SR,Benjamin EJ,Curtis LH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data have shown that preprocedural statin therapy reduces periprocedural myocardial infarction after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, whether preprocedural statins improve clinical outcomes in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) has not been established. We aimed to evaluate ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Ko DT,Wijeysundera HC,Yun L,Austin PC,Cantor WJ,Tu JV

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stress testing after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in fee-for-service settings is common and rates vary by hospital. Rates of stress testing after PCI within integrated healthcare systems, such as the Veterans Affairs (VA) are unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:We evaluated all VA patients who underwen...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Bradley SM,Hess E,Winchester DE,Sussman JB,Aggarwal V,Maddox TM,Barón AE,Rumsfeld JS,Ho PM

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), catheter ablation maintains sinus rhythm more effectively than antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs), but its effect on symptoms and quality of life (QOL) has not been fully characterized. METHODS AND RESULTS:We evaluated symptoms and QOL in a multicenter, randomi...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Reynolds MR,Walczak J,White SA,Cohen DJ,Wilber DJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Percent time in therapeutic range (TTR) and international normalized ratio (INR) variability both measure warfarin control and are associated with outcomes independently. Here, we examine the advantages of a warfarin composite measure (WCM), which summarizes the 2 when measuring patient outcomes. We also exa...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Razouki Z,Burgess JF Jr,Ozonoff A,Zhao S,Berlowitz D,Rose AJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Translation of evidence-based heart failure (HF) therapies to clinical practice is incomplete and may vary internationally. We examined common measures of quality of care in patients enrolled in the international Acute Study of Clinical Effectiveness of Nesiritide in Decompensated Heart Failure trial. METHO...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Howlett JG,Ezekowitz JA,Podder M,Hernandez AF,Diaz R,Dickstein K,Dunlap ME,Corbalán R,Armstrong PW,Starling RC,O'Connor CM,Califf RM,Fonarow GC,ASCEND-HF Investigators.

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND- In 2008, the American Heart Association (AHA) recommended a 2-step screening method, consisting of the 2-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2) followed by the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), for identifying depression in cardiovascular patients. The accuracy and prognostic value of this sc...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Elderon L,Smolderen KG,Na B,Whooley MA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clear and consistent definitions of hypertension and hypertension control are crucial to guide diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance. A variety of surveillance definitions are in frequent use, resulting in variation of reported hypertension prevalence and control, even when based on the same data set. METH...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Crim MT,Yoon SS,Ortiz E,Wall HK,Schober S,Gillespie C,Sorlie P,Keenan N,Labarthe D,Hong Y

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Using electronic health records data to predict events and onset of diseases is increasingly common. Relatively little is known, although, about the tradeoffs between data requirements and model utility. METHODS AND RESULTS:We examined the performance of machine learning models trained to detect prediagnost...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Ng K,Steinhubl SR,deFilippi C,Dey S,Stewart WF

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart failure guidelines recommend routine monitoring of serum potassium, and renal function in patients treated with a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA). How these recommendations are implemented in high-risk patients or according to setting of drug initiation is poorly characterized. METHODS AND...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Cooper LB,Hammill BG,Peterson ED,Pitt B,Maciejewski ML,Curtis LH,Hernandez AF

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RCTs (randomized controlled trials) are the preferred source of evidence to support professional societies' guidelines. The fragility index (FI), defined as the minimum number of patients whose status would need to switch from nonevent to event to render a statistically significant result nonsignificant, qua...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Gaudino M,Hameed I,Biondi-Zoccai G,Tam DY,Gerry S,Rahouma M,Khan FM,Angiolillo DJ,Benedetto U,Taggart DP,Girardi LN,Crea F,Ruel M,Fremes SE

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Efforts to improve the quality of care for patients with cardiovascular disease frequently target the decrease of physician-level performance variability. We assessed how variability in providing β-blockers to ambulatory postmyocardial infarction (MI) patients was influenced by physician and patient level ch...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Funkhouser E,Houston TK,Levine DA,Richman J,Allison JJ,Kiefe CI

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2009, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is publicly reporting hospital-level risk-standardized 30-day mortality and readmission rates after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and heart failure (HF). We provide patterns of hospital performance, based on these measures. METHODS AND RESULTS:We cal...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Krumholz HM,Merrill AR,Schone EM,Schreiner GC,Chen J,Bradley EH,Wang Y,Wang Y,Lin Z,Straube BM,Rapp MT,Normand SL,Drye EE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Report cards of risk-adjusted mortality rates of individual cardiac surgeons have been publicly available in New York State since 1991. A survey of New York cardiologists in 1996 found that these report cards had little effect on their referral recommendations to cardiac surgeons. It is unknown whether the i...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Brown DL,Epstein AM,Schneider EC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known regarding the adoption of direct thrombin inhibitors in clinical practice. We examine trends in oral anticoagulation for the prevention of thromboembolism in the United States. METHODS AND RESULTS:We used the IMS Health National Disease and Therapeutic Index, a nationally representative audi...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Kirley K,Qato DM,Kornfield R,Stafford RS,Alexander GC

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Guidelines recommend against the use of intravenous tPA (tissue-type plasminogen activator; IV tPA) in acute ischemic stroke patients with prior ischemic stroke within 3 months. However, there are limited data on the safety of IV tPA in this population. Methods and Results A retrospective observational stud...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Shah S,Liang L,Kosinski A,Hernandez AF,Schwamm LH,Smith EE,Fonarow GC,Bhatt DL,Feng W,Peterson ED,Xian Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients on dialysis who have an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have an exceedingly poor prognosis, but it is unknown to what extent guideline-recommended interventions and treatments are used and to which benefit. We aimed to assess temporal changes in the use of treatments and survival rates in dialysis...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Szummer K,Lindhagen L,Evans M,Spaak J,Koul S,Åkerblom A,Carrero JJ,Jernberg T

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite effective treatments to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, their translation into practice is limited. METHODS AND RESULTS:Using a parallel arm cluster-randomized controlled trial in 60 Australian primary healthcare centers, we tested whether a multifaceted quality improvement intervention comprisi...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Peiris D,Usherwood T,Panaretto K,Harris M,Hunt J,Redfern J,Zwar N,Colagiuri S,Hayman N,Lo S,Patel B,Lyford M,MacMahon S,Neal B,Sullivan D,Cass A,Jackson R,Patel A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events, but its use for prediction of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in combination with conventional risk factors has not been well defined. METHODS AND RESULTS:To understand the effect of HbA1C on CVD risk in the context of ot...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Jarmul JA,Pignone M,Pletcher MJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) do not undergo aortic valve replacement (AVR) despite demonstrated symptomatic and survival advantages and despite unequivocal guideline recommendations for surgical evaluation. METHODS AND RESULTS:In 3 large tertiary care institutions (university, ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Bach DS,Siao D,Girard SE,Duvernoy C,McCallister BD Jr,Gualano SK

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical and US regulatory guidelines for patients with mechanical circulatory support (MCS) require the identification of a caregiver to assist with MCS care. There is limited understanding of the impact of MCS caregiving on patients and caregivers. The purpose of this study was to examine how living with M...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Magasi S,Buono S,Yancy CW,Ramirez RD,Grady KL

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry was recently linked with longitudinal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) claims data. The degree to which this linked cohort is representative of the overall CathPCI Registry and CMS PCI populations is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:CathPCI Registr...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Brennan JM,Peterson ED,Messenger JC,Rumsfeld JS,Weintraub WS,Anstrom KJ,Eisenstein EL,Milford-Beland S,Grau-Sepulveda MV,Booth ME,Dokholyan RS,Douglas PS,Duke Clinical Research Institute DEcIDE Team.

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Composite indices of health care performance are an aggregation of underlying individual performance measures and are increasingly being used to rank hospitals. We sought to conduct an observational analysis to determine the influence of the opportunity-based and all-or-none composite performance measures on...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Eapen ZJ,Fonarow GC,Dai D,O'Brien SM,Schwamm LH,Cannon CP,Heidenreich PA,Bhatt DL,Peterson ED,Hernandez AF,Get With The Guidelines Steering Committee and Hospitals.

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High body mass index (BMI) increases the probability of indeterminate findings on diagnostic studies, length of stay, and cost of care for hospitalized patients. No study has examined the economic and operational impact of BMI in patients with chest complaints presenting to the emergency department (ED). The...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Peitz GW,Troyer J,Jones AE,Shapiro NI,Nelson RD,Hernandez J,Kline JA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The burden of cardiovascular disease as a chronic illness increasingly requires patients to assume more responsibility for their self-management. Patient education is believed to be an essential component of cardiovascular care; however, there is limited evidence about specific therapeutic patient education ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Barnason S,White-Williams C,Rossi LP,Centeno M,Crabbe DL,Lee KS,McCabe N,Nauser J,Schulz P,Stamp K,Wood K,American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing; Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young; Coun

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00