Race, quality of care, and outcomes of elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure

SS Rathore, JAM Foody, Y Wang, GL Smith, J Herrin… - Jama, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
… Our findings thus indicate that black patients hospitalized with heart failure receive
comparable if not higher quality of care and have higher survival rates than white patients. …

Adherence to heart failure quality-of-care indicators in US hospitals: analysis of the ADHERE Registry

GC Fonarow, CW Yancy, JT Heywood… - Archives of internal …, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
… RV Acutely decompensated heart failure: opportunities to improve care and … care for
patients with heart failure, there is significant individual variability in conformity to quality-of-care

The EuroHeart Failure survey programme—a survey on the quality of care among patients with heart failure in Europe: Part 1: patient characteristics and diagnosis

JGF Cleland, K Swedberg, F Follath… - European heart …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
heart failure or a stated diagnosis of heart failure) in 65% of the patients enrolled, slightly
more than those who had had a prior diagnosis of heart failure recorded in their notes (56%). …

The EuroHeart Failure Survey programme—a survey on the quality of care among patients with heart failure in Europe: Part 2: treatment

M Komajda, F Follath, K Swedberg… - European heart …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… Background National surveys suggest that treatment of heart failure in daily practice differs
Heart Failure Survey was conducted to ascertain how patients hospitalized for heart failure

Quality of care by race and gender for congestive heart failure and pneumonia

JZ Ayanian, JS Weissman, S Chasan-Taber… - Medical care, 1999 - journals.lww.com
… investigators on quality of care for congestive heart failure and … heart failure and 732 for
pneumonia) from a stratified random sample of patients chosen for a study of quality of care and …

… quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure: results of the Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure  …

GC Fonarow, WT Abraham, NM Albert… - Archives of internal …, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
… of heart failure (HF), the quality of care remains inadequate. We sought to evaluate the
effect of a national hospital-based initiative on quality of care in patients hospitalized with HF. …

… Heart Association scientific statement from the council on clinical cardiology, heart failure and transplantation committee; quality of care and outcomes research and …

BJ Maron, JA Towbin, G Thiene, C Antzelevitch… - Circulation, 2006 - Am Heart Assoc
Classifications of heart muscle diseases have proved to be exceedingly complex and in many
respects contradictory. Indeed, the precise language used to describe these diseases is …

… American Heart Association Councils on epidemiology and prevention, clinical cardiology, cardiovascular nursing, and high blood pressure research; Quality of Care …

DD Schocken, EJ Benjamin, GC Fonarow… - Circulation, 2008 - Am Heart Assoc
The increase in heart failure (HF) rates throughout the developed and developing regions of
the world poses enormous challenges for caregivers, researchers, and policymakers. …

… reduces healthcare use and improves quality of care in heart failure patients with implantable defibrillators: the evolution of management strategies of heart failure …

M Landolina, GB Perego, M Lunati, A Curnis… - Circulation, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
… or urgent in-office visits for heart failure, arrhythmias, or ICD-… of total healthcare visits for
heart failure, arrhythmias, or ICD-… change in quality of life (Minnesota Living With Heart Failure

Weekend hospital admission and discharge for heart failure: association with quality of care and clinical outcomes

TB Horwich, AF Hernandez, L Liang, NM Albert… - American heart …, 2009 - Elsevier
quality of care and worse outcomes in some but not all medical conditions, the impact of
weekend versus weekday admission and discharge for heart failure (… with quality of care and (2) …