Use of antithrombotic medications among elderly ischemic stroke patients.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prior studies of the impact of psychiatric comorbidity on outcomes after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have frequently relied on inpatient secondary diagnosis codes. This study compared associations between psychiatric comorbidity and AMI outcomes that were derived using secondary diagnosis codes and cod...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Abrams TE,Vaughan-Sarrazin M,Rosenthal GE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early trials evaluating the effect of omega 3 fatty acids (ω-3 FA) reported benefits for mortality and cardiovascular events but recent larger studies trials have variable findings. We assessed the effects of ω-3 FA on cardiovascular and other important clinical outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS:We searched MED...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Kotwal S,Jun M,Sullivan D,Perkovic V,Neal B

更新日期：2012-11-01 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:Rehospitalizations after acute myocardial infarction for unplanned coronary revascularization and unstable angina (UA) are common. However, despite the inclusion of these events in composite end points of many clinical trials, their association with health status has not been studied. METHODS AND RESULTS:We...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Shore S,Smolderen KG,Kennedy KF,Jones PG,Arnold SV,Cohen DJ,Stolker JM,Zhao Z,Wang TY,Ho PM,Spertus JA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early readmissions among older adults hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are costly and difficult to predict. Aging-related functional impairments may inform risk prediction but are unavailable in most studies. Our objective was to, therefore, develop and validate an AMI readmission risk mode...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Dodson JA,Hajduk AM,Murphy TE,Geda M,Krumholz HM,Tsang S,Nanna MG,Tinetti ME,Goldstein D,Forman DE,Alexander KP,Gill TM,Chaudhry SI

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angina in patients with coronary artery disease is associated with worse quality of life; however, the relationship between angina frequency and resource utilization is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:Using data from the MERLIN-TIMI 36 trial, we assessed the association between the extent of angina after an ac...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Arnold SV,Morrow DA,Lei Y,Cohen DJ,Mahoney EM,Braunwald E,Chan PS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In response to the public health emergency created by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, American Heart Association volunteers and staff aimed to rapidly develop and launch a resource for the medical and research community to expedite scientific advancement through shared learning, quality imp...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Alger HM,Rutan C,Williams JH 4th,Walchok JG,Bolles M,Hall JL,Bradley SM,Elkind MSV,Rodriguez F,Wang TY,Morrow DA,Das SR,de Lemos JA

更新日期：2020-08-01 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: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:Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is recommended in clinical practice guidelines, but dose prescribed varies highly by country. This study characterized the dose offered in supervised CR programs and alternative models worldwide and their potential correlates. METHODS AND RESULTS:In this cross-sectional study, an...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Chaves G,Turk-Adawi K,Supervia M,Santiago de Araújo Pio C,Abu-Jeish AH,Mamataz T,Tarima S,Lopez Jimenez F,Grace SL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Temporal trends in stroke incidence are unclear. We aimed to examine age- and sex-specific temporal trends in incidence of fatal and nonfatal hospitalized stroke in Scotland from 1986 to 2005. METHODS AND RESULTS:Mean age at the time of first stroke was 70.8 (SD, 12.9) years in men and 76.4 (12.9) years in ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Lewsey JD,Jhund PS,Gillies M,Chalmers JW,Redpath A,Kelso L,Briggs A,Walters M,Langhorne P,Capewell S,McMurray JJ,MacIntyre K

更新日期：2009-09-01 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:Several antiplatelet medications used during and after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are contraindicated for specific patient groups. A broad assessment of contraindicated medication use and associated clinical outcomes is not well described. METHODS AND RESULTS:Using national Veterans Affairs Cl...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Barnes GD,Stanislawski MA,Liu W,Barón AE,Armstrong EJ,Ho PM,Klein A,Maddox TM,Nallamothu BK,Rumsfeld JS,Tsai TT,Bradley SM

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As new techniques emerge to quantify patients' health status, new opportunities are created to validate patient-reported outcome questionnaires. The Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ), a widely used coronary artery disease-specific health status tool, has not been validated against daily records of angina fr...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Arnold SV,Kosiborod M,Li Y,Jones PG,Yue P,Belardinelli L,Spertus JA

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have demonstrated an association between moderate kidney dysfunction and sudden cardiac death in people with cardiovascular disease. METHODS AND RESULTS:The study was a longitudinal analysis among 4465 participants from the Cardiovascular Health Study without prevalent cardiovascular disease ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Deo R,Sotoodehnia N,Katz R,Sarnak MJ,Fried LF,Chonchol M,Kestenbaum B,Psaty BM,Siscovick DS,Shlipak MG

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the widespread availability of effective and affordable therapies, hypertension remains this country's most significant modifiable cardiovascular risk factor. Approximately 30% to 50% of individuals with hypertension currently fail to reach guideline-recommended target blood pressure (BP) goals. Alth...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Shah BR,Thomas KL,Elliot-Bynum S,Thomas K,Damon K,Allen LaPointe N,Calhoun SA,Thomas L,Mathews R,Califf RM,Peterson ED

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important treatment goal in the management of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Uncertainty exists as to whether patients' HRQoL differ when treated with medical rhythm control or rate control. We compared HRQoL between patients treated with rhythm...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Ha AC,Breithardt G,Camm AJ,Crijns HJ,Fitzmaurice GM,Kowey PR,Le Heuzey JY,Naditch-Brûlé L,Prystowsky EN,Schwartz PJ,Torp-Pedersen C,Weintraub WS,Dorian P

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 3M Potentially Preventable Readmissions (3M-PPR) software matches clinically related index admission and readmission diagnoses that may signify in-hospital or postdischarge quality problems. To assess whether the PPR algorithm identifies preventable readmissions, we compared processes of care between PPR...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Borzecki AM,Chen Q,Mull HJ,Shwartz M,Bhatt DL,Hanchate A,Rosen AK

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sex and neighborhood socioeconomic status (nSES) may independently affect the care and outcomes of acute coronary syndrome, partly through barriers in timely access to cardiac catheterization. We sought to determine whether sex modifies the association between nSES and the receipt of cardiac catheterization ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Fabreau GE,Leung AA,Southern DA,Knudtson ML,McWilliams JM,Ayanian JZ,Ghali WA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Risk models in the private insurance setting may systematically underpredict in the socially disadvantaged. In this study, we sought to determine whether US minority Medicare beneficiaries had disproportionately low costs compared with their clinical outcomes and whether adding social determinants of health ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Hammond G,Johnston K,Huang K,Joynt Maddox KE

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prior studies suggest that low-risk ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention can be considered for early discharge. We describe the implementation of an STEMI risk score to decrease cost while maintaining optimal patient outcomes. METH...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Ebinger JE,Strauss CE,Garberich RR,Bradley SM,Rush P,Chavez IJ,Poulose AK,Porten BR,Henry TD

更新日期：2018-04-01 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 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:Little is known about ethnic differences in poststroke depression (PSD) in the United States. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of PSD at 90 days after first-ever stroke and to examine ethnic differences in the prevalence between Mexican Americans (MAs) and non-Hispanic whites (NHWs). METHODS AND R...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Dong L,Sánchez BN,Skolarus LE,Morgenstern LB,Lisabeth LD

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:Infants with complex congenital heart disease are at high risk for poor neurodevelopmental outcomes. However, implementation of dedicated congenital heart disease follow-up programs presents important infrastructure, personnel, and resource challenges. We present the development, implementation, and retrospective revi...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Chorna O,Baldwin HS,Neumaier J,Gogliotti S,Powers D,Mouvery A,Bichell D,Maitre NL

更新日期：2016-07-01 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:Long-term exposure to particulate matter <2.5 µm in diameter (PM2.5) and ozone has been associated with the development and progression of cardiovascular disease and, in the case of PM2.5, higher cardiovascular mortality. Whether exposure to PM2.5 and ozone is associated with patients' health status and qual...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Malik AO,Jones PG,Chan PS,Peri-Okonny PA,Hejjaji V,Spertus JA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying patients at increased risk of contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) can help target risk mitigation strategies toward these individuals during percutaneous coronary intervention. Illuminating which risk models best stratify risk is an important foundation for such quality improvement e...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Ma B,Allen DW,Graham MM,Har BJ,Tyrrell B,Tan Z,Spertus JA,Brown JR,Matheny ME,Hemmelgarn BR,Pannu N,James MT

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients presenting with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces mortality when compared with fibrinolysis. In other forms of coronary artery disease (CAD), however, it has been controversial whether PCI reduces mortality. In this meta-analysis, we exam...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Chacko L,P Howard J,Rajkumar C,Nowbar AN,Kane C,Mahdi D,Foley M,Shun-Shin M,Cole G,Sen S,Al-Lamee R,Francis DP,Ahmad Y

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00