Access to coronary artery bypass graft surgery under pay for performance: evidence from the premier hospital quality incentive demonstration.

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: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: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:Although home blood pressure (BP) monitoring interventions have shown potential in selected populations, it is unclear whether such strategies can be generalized. We sought to determine whether a multifaceted BP control program that uses a web-based health portal (Heart360), community health coaches, and phy...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Thomas KL,Shah BR,Elliot-Bynum S,Thomas KD,Damon K,Allen LaPointe NM,Calhoun S,Thomas L,Breathett K,Mathews R,Anderson M,Califf RM,Peterson ED

更新日期：2014-11-01 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: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: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: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: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: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 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: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: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: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：: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:The effects of lifestyle changes and evolving treatment practices on coronary disease incidence rates, demographic and clinical profile, and the short-term outcomes of patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction have not been well characterized. The purpose of this study was to examine multidecade...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Floyd KC,Yarzebski J,Spencer FA,Lessard D,Dalen JE,Alpert JS,Gore JM,Goldberg RJ

更新日期：2009-03-01 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 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 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:Despite interest in using electronic health record (EHR) data to assess quality of care, the accuracy of such data is largely unknown. We sought to develop and validate transient ischemic attack and minor ischemic stroke electronic quality measures (eQMs) using EHR data. METHODS AND RESULTS:A random sample ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Bravata DM,Myers LJ,Cheng E,Reeves M,Baye F,Yu Z,Damush T,Miech EJ,Sico J,Phipps M,Zillich A,Johanning J,Chaturvedi S,Austin C,Ferguson J,Maryfield B,Snow K,Ofner S,Graham G,Rhude R,Williams LS,Arling G

更新日期：2017-09-01 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: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:The use of antithrombotic medications after ischemic stroke is recommended for deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis and secondary stroke prevention. We assessed the rate of receipt of these therapies among eligible ischemic stroke patients age ≥65 years and determined the effects of age and other patient charact...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Lichtman JH,Naert L,Allen NB,Watanabe E,Jones SB,Barry LC,Bravata DM,Goldstein LB

更新日期：2011-01-01 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: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: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: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: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:The contemporary impact of heart failure (HF) versus the most common forms of cancer as reflected by related first-ever hospitalizations and subsequent case-fatality rates is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:Using a national registry in Sweden, we compared the rate of first-ever hospitalization and associated s...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Stewart S,Ekman I,Ekman T,Odén A,Rosengren A

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest is likely to vary among hospitals caring for children,validated methods to risk-standardize pediatric survival rates across sites do not currently exist. METHODS AND RESULTS:From 2006 to 2010, within the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines-...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Jayaram N,Spertus JA,Nadkarni V,Berg RA,Tang F,Raymond T,Guerguerian AM,Chan PS,American Heart Association's Get with the Guidelines-Resuscitation Investigators.

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00