Feasibility of a Team Approach to Complex Congenital Heart Defect Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up: Early Experience of a Combined Cardiology/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Follow-Up Program.

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: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: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：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: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: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:The necessity for rapid evaluation and treatment of acute ischemic stroke with intravenous tPA (tissue-type plasminogen activator) may increase the risk of administrating tPA to patients presenting with noncerebrovascular conditions that closely resemble stroke (stroke mimics). However, there are limited dat...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Ali-Ahmed F,Federspiel JJ,Liang L,Xu H,Sevilis T,Hernandez AF,Kosinski AS,Prvu Bettger J,Smith EE,Bhatt DL,Schwamm LH,Fonarow GC,Peterson ED,Xian Y

更新日期：2019-08-01 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: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：: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: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: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: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: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:Hospital report cards, in which outcomes after the provision of medical or surgical care are compared across healthcare providers, are being published with increasing frequency. However, the accuracy of such comparisons is controversial, especially when case volumes are small. The objective was to determine ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Austin PC,Reeves MJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) is an alternative therapy for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension who are ineligible for pulmonary endarterectomy-the standard therapy. Currently, most reported results of BPA are from relatively small cohorts treated at single centers. The present ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Ogawa A,Satoh T,Fukuda T,Sugimura K,Fukumoto Y,Emoto N,Yamada N,Yao A,Ando M,Ogino H,Tanabe N,Tsujino I,Hanaoka M,Minatoya K,Ito H,Matsubara H

更新日期：2017-11-01 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: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: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:The number of women veterans is increasing, yet little is known about their cardiovascular risk factors, coronary anatomy, cardiac treatments, and outcomes after cardiac catheterization. Prior studies have shown that nonveteran women have more risk factors, receive less aggressive treatment, and have worse o...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Davis MB,Maddox TM,Langner P,Plomondon ME,Rumsfeld JS,Duvernoy CS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether apolipoprotein B (apoB) or non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) adds to the predictive power of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) for cardiovascular risk remains controversial. METHODS AND RESULTS:This meta-analysis is based on all the published epidemiological studies that con...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Sniderman AD,Williams K,Contois JH,Monroe HM,McQueen MJ,de Graaf J,Furberg CD

更新日期：2011-05-01 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: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 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy is an increasingly viable alternative for patients who are not candidates for heart transplantation or who are waiting for a suitable donor. We aimed to determine whether there is an association between sex, race/ethnicity, insurance coverage, and neighborhood in...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Wang X,Luke AA,Vader JM,Maddox TM,Joynt Maddox KE

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2007 update to the American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention in women recommend a simplified approach to risk stratification. We assigned Women's Health Initiative participants to risk categories as described in the guideline and evaluated clinical event rates with...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Hsia J,Rodabough RJ,Manson JE,Liu S,Freiberg MS,Graettinger W,Rosal MC,Cochrane B,Lloyd-Jones D,Robinson JG,Howard BV,Women's Health Initiative Research Group.

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Women have an unexplained worse outcome after myocardial infarction (MI) compared with men in many studies. Depressive symptoms predict adverse post-MI outcomes and are more prevalent among women than men. We examined whether depressive symptoms contribute to women's worse outcomes after MI. METHODS AND RES...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Parashar S,Rumsfeld JS,Reid KJ,Buchanan D,Dawood N,Khizer S,Lichtman J,Vaccarino V,PREMIER Registry Investigators.

更新日期：2009-01-01 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: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:We sought to determine inter-rater reliability of the 2009 Appropriate Use Criteria for radionuclide imaging and whether physicians at various levels of training can effectively identify nuclear stress tests with inappropriate indications. METHODS AND RESULTS:Four hundred patients were randomly selected fro...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Ye S,Rabbani LE,Kelly CR,Kelly MR,Lewis M,Paz Y,Peck CL,Rao S,Bokhari S,Weiner SD,Einstein AJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00