Check it, change it: a community-based intervention to improve blood pressure control.

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:Nearly half of Americans with diagnosed hypertension have uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) while some integrated healthcare systems, such as Kaiser Permanente Northern California, have achieved control rates upwards 90%. METHODS AND RESULTS:We adapted Kaiser Permanente's evidence-based treatment protocols i...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Fontil V,Gupta R,Moise N,Chen E,Guzman D,McCulloch CE,Bibbins-Domingo K

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As part of state-mandated public reporting of outcomes after percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) in Massachusetts, procedural and clinical data were prospectively collected. Variables associated with higher mortality were audited to ensure accuracy of coding. We examined the impact of adjudication on ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Barringhaus KG,Zelevinsky K,Lovett A,Normand SL,Ho KK

更新日期：2011-01-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Implementation of stroke early supported discharge (ESD) services has been recommended in many countries' clinical guidelines, based on clinical trial evidence. This is the first observational study to investigate the effectiveness of ESD service models operating in real-world conditions, at scale. METHODS ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Fisher RJ,Byrne A,Chouliara N,Lewis S,Paley L,Hoffman A,Rudd A,Robinson T,Langhorne P,Walker MF

更新日期：2020-08-01 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:Women have an increased risk of rehospitalization in the immediate postdischarge period; however, few studies have determined how readmission risk dynamically changes on a day-to-day basis over the full year after hospitalization by sex and how these differences compare with the risk for mortality. METHODS ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Dreyer RP,Dharmarajan K,Hsieh AF,Welsh J,Qin L,Krumholz HM

更新日期：2017-05-01 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:Cardiovascular prevention guidelines use estimated 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk based on the pooled cohort equations to guide treatment decisions and engage patients in shared decision-making. We sought to determine patient perceived versus actual risk of atherosclerotic CVD and ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Navar AM,Wang TY,Li S,Mi X,Li Z,Robinson JG,Virani SS,Peterson ED

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Consumer-reported patient-provider communication (PPC) assessed by Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey in ambulatory settings is incorporated as a complementary value metric for patient-centered care of chronic conditions in pay-for-performance programs. In this study, we examine the relationship of P...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Okunrintemi V,Spatz ES,Di Capua P,Salami JA,Valero-Elizondo J,Warraich H,Virani SS,Blaha MJ,Blankstein R,Butt AA,Borden WB,Dharmarajan K,Ting H,Krumholz HM,Nasir K

更新日期：2017-04-01 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

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: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:Propensity-score matching is frequently used in the cardiology literature. Recent systematic reviews have found that this method is, in general, poorly implemented in the medical literature. The study objective was to examine the quality of the implementation of propensity-score matching in the general cardi...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Austin PC

更新日期：2008-09-01 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:Secondary prevention therapies improve longitudinal outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease. Previous studies showed that teaching hospitals (THs) more consistently use evidence-based secondary prevention therapies than non-THs (NTHs). It is unclear whether these differences persist after initiatio...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Tam LM,Fonarow GC,Bhatt DL,Grau-Sepulveda MV,Hernandez AF,Peterson ED,Schwamm LH,Giugliano RP,GWTG Steering Committee and Investigators.

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although pay for performance (P4P) has become common, many worry that P4P will lead providers to avoid offering surgical procedures to the sickest patients out of concern that poor outcomes will lead to financial penalties. METHODS AND RESULTS:We used Medicare data to compare change in rates of coronary art...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Epstein AM,Joynt KE,Jha AK,Orav EJ

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Ischemic heart disease (IHD) has been considered the top cause of mortality globally. However, countries differ in their rates and there have been changes over time. Methods and Results We analyzed mortality data submitted to the World Health Organization from 2005 to 2015 by individual countries. We explor...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Nowbar AN,Gitto M,Howard JP,Francis DP,Al-Lamee R

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radial artery access for coronary angiography and interventions has been promoted for reducing hemostasis time and vascular complications compared with femoral access, yet it can take longer to perform and is not always successful, leading to concerns about its cost. We report a cost-benefit analysis of radi...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Mitchell MD,Hong JA,Lee BY,Umscheid CA,Bartsch SM,Don CW

更新日期：2012-07-01 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:Smoking cessation after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) decreases the risk of recurrent AMI and mortality by 30% to 50%, but many patients continue to smoke. The association of smoking with angina and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after AMI is unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS:Patients in 2 US multice...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Buchanan DM,Arnold SV,Gosch KL,Jones PG,Longmore LS,Spertus JA,Cresci S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The impact of polyvascular disease (peripheral arterial disease [PAD] and cerebrovascular disease [CVD]) on long-term cardiovascular outcomes among older patients with acute myocardial infarction has not been well studied. METHODS AND RESULTS:Patients with non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction aged...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Subherwal S,Bhatt DL,Li S,Wang TY,Thomas L,Alexander KP,Patel MR,Ohman EM,Gibler WB,Peterson ED,Roe MT

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reducing hospital readmission after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has the potential to both improve quality and reduce costs. As such, readmission after AMI has been a target of financial penalties through Medicare. However, substantial concern exists about potential adverse effects and efficacious readm...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Wasfy JH,Hidrue MK,Ngo J,Tanguturi VK,Cafiero-Fonseca ET,Thompson RW,Johnson N,McDermott ST,Singh JP,Del Carmen MG,Ferris TG

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among individuals without hypertension based on clinic blood pressure (BP), it is unclear who should be screened for masked hypertension, defined as having hypertension based on out-of-clinic BP. We hypothesized that individuals with a higher 10-year predicted atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) r...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Anstey DE,Booth JN 3rd,Abdalla M,Spruill TM,Min YI,Muntner P,Shimbo D

更新日期：2017-07-01 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: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:Whether measuring and reporting of coronary artery calcium scores (CACS) might lead to changes in cardiovascular risk management is not established. In this observational study, we examined whether high baseline CACS were associated with the initiation as well continuation of new lipid-lowering medication (L...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Nasir K,McClelland RL,Blumenthal RS,Goff DC Jr,Hoffmann U,Psaty BM,Greenland P,Kronmal RA,Budoff MJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 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: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: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