Academic Outcomes in Children With Congenital Heart Defects: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

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 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: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: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 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: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:Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) are at high risk for mortality after myocardial infarction (MI). Despite an overall trend of reduced mortality after MI, the mortality gap between MI patients with and without DM did not decrease over time in previous analyses. We assessed recent trends in hospital mortal...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Gore MO,Patel MJ,Kosiborod M,Parsons LS,Khera A,de Lemos JA,Rogers WJ,Peterson ED,Canto JC,McGuire DK,National Registry of Myocardial Infarction Investigators.

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence suggests that recent and projected future investments in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) programs at US hospitals fail to increase access to timely reperfusion for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. METHODS AND RESULTS:We set out to estimate the annual number and cos...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Concannon TW,Nelson J,Kent DM,Griffith JL

更新日期：2013-07-01 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: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: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: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

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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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：:Background Data about anticoagulation in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients are inconsistent. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of adjunctive oral anticoagulants in patients with PAH through meta-analysis, and to further assess whether response differs by PAH subtype. Methods and Result...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Khan MS,Usman MS,Siddiqi TJ,Khan SU,Murad MH,Mookadam F,Figueredo VM,Krasuski RA,Benza RL,Rich JD

更新日期：2018-09-01 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: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: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:Vitamin K antagonists (VKA) use is challenging because of frequent blood monitoring and complex dosing. Therefore, many patients and physicians are reluctant to start VKA. However, it is unclear whether VKA use actually lowers quality of life. We aimed to determine the impact of VKA initiation on quality of ...

journal_title：Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes

authors： Kooistra HA,Piersma-Wichers M,Kluin-Nelemans HC,Veeger NJ,Meijer K

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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: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: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