Use of Medicare data to identify coronary heart disease outcomes in the Women's Health Initiative.

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:Many hospitalized medically ill patients are at risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Risk factors include prior VTE, older age, immobility, obesity, cardiac or respiratory failure, and cancer (at-risk patients). Although guidelines recommend use of VTE prophylaxis for at-risk patients, many may not receive ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Pendergraft T,Liu X,Edelsberg J,Phatak H,Vera-Llonch M,Liu LZ,Oster G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite decades of improvement in the quality and outcomes of cardiovascular care, significant gaps remain. Existing quality improvement strategies are often limited in scope to specific clinical conditions and episodic care. Health services and outcomes research is essential to inform gaps in care but rarely results ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： CV-QUIC Collaborators.,Bradley SM,Adusumalli S,Amin AP,Borden WB,Das SR,Downey WE,Ebinger JE,Gelbman J,Gluckman TJ,Goyal A,Gupta D,Khot UN,Levy AE,Mutharasan RK,Rush P,Strauss CE,Shreenivas S,Ho PM

更新日期：2021-01-01 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: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:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) was a preplanned secondary outcome of the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory Study. The trial previously reported that Ginkgo biloba had no effect on the primary outcome, incident dementia. METHODS AND RESULTS:The double-blind trial randomly assigned 3069 participants over 75 years of ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Kuller LH,Ives DG,Fitzpatrick AL,Carlson MC,Mercado C,Lopez OL,Burke GL,Furberg CD,DeKosky ST,Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory Study Investigators.

更新日期：2010-01-01 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: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: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: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:The absolute risk reduction (ARR) in cardiovascular events from therapy is generally assumed to be proportional to baseline risk-such that high-risk patients benefit most. Yet newer analyses have proposed using randomized trial data to develop models that estimate individual treatment effects. We tested 2 hy...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Duan T,Rajpurkar P,Laird D,Ng AY,Basu S

更新日期：2019-03-01 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: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:Clinical prediction models (CPMs) estimate the probability of clinical outcomes and hold the potential to improve decision making and individualize care. For patients with cardiovascular disease, there are numerous CPMs available although the extent of this literature is not well described. METHODS AND RESU...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Wessler BS,Lai Yh L,Kramer W,Cangelosi M,Raman G,Lutz JS,Kent DM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Geriatric conditions may influence outcomes among patients receiving implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). We sought to determine the prevalence of frailty and dementia among older adults receiving primary prevention ICDs and to determine the impact of multimorbidity on mortality within 1 year of I...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Green AR,Leff B,Wang Y,Spatz ES,Masoudi FA,Peterson PN,Daugherty SL,Matlock DD

更新日期：2016-01-01 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:Exposure to tobacco smoke is associated with markers of preclinical atherosclerosis in adults, but its effect on arterial structure in adolescents is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:Healthy 13-year-old adolescents from the atherosclerosis prevention trial STRIP were studied. Maximum carotid and aortic intima-m...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Kallio K,Jokinen E,Saarinen M,Hämäläinen M,Volanen I,Kaitosaari T,Rönnemaa T,Viikari J,Raitakari OT,Simell O

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

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 Hospital management practices are associated with cardiovascular process of care measures and patient outcomes. However, management practices related to acute cardiac care in India has not been studied. Methods and Results We measured management practices through semistructured, in-person interviews with ho...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Yoo SGK,Davies D,Mohanan PP,Baldridge AS,Charles PM,Schumacher M,Bhalla S,Devarajan R,Hirschhorn LR,Prabhakaran D,Huffman MD

更新日期：2019-05-01 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: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: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:As recently demonstrated, random allocation to rosuvastatin results in large relative risk reductions for first cardiovascular events among apparently healthy men and women with low levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol but elevated levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein. However, whether the ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Ridker PM,MacFadyen JG,Fonseca FA,Genest J,Gotto AM,Kastelein JJ,Koenig W,Libby P,Lorenzatti AJ,Nordestgaard BG,Shepherd J,Willerson JT,Glynn RJ,JUPITER Study Group.

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Instruments to assess symptom burden and quality of life among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) have not been well evaluated in community practice or associated with patient outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS:Using data from 10 087 AF patients in the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of AF (O...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Freeman JV,Simon DN,Go AS,Spertus J,Fonarow GC,Gersh BJ,Hylek EM,Kowey PR,Mahaffey KW,Thomas LE,Chang P,Peterson ED,Piccini JP,Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) Investigators and

更新日期：2015-07-01 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:Patients with diabetes are frequently admitted for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) on antihyperglycemic agents but may be discharged without glucose-lowering therapy. We examined the frequency of this practice and evaluated the associated outcomes of readmission and mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS:We condu...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Lipska KJ,Wang Y,Kosiborod M,Masoudi FA,Havranek EP,Krumholz HM,Inzucchi SE

更新日期：2010-05-01 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: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: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 Since the direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC) were introduced, oral anticoagulant (OAC) prescription patterns have rapidly changed in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). We aimed to evaluate the evolving trends of OAC use in a large nationwide cohort and specifically examine the changes in patient profile...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Lee SR,Choi EK,Kwon S,Jung JH,Han KD,Cha MJ,Oh S,Lip GYH

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00