[HTML][HTML] The AHA/ACC/HFSA 2022 heart failure guidelines: changing the focus to heart failure prevention

A Abovich, DS Matasic, R Cardoso, CE Ndumele… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The prevalence of heart failure (HF) in the United States (US) is estimated at over 6 million
adults, with the incidence continuing to increase. A large proportion of the US population is …

Housing instability and cardiometabolic health in the United States: a narrative review of the literature

KD Gu, KC Faulkner, AN Thorndike - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Housing instability is variably defined but generally encompasses difficulty paying rent,
living in poor or overcrowded conditions, moving frequently, or spending the majority of …

Social risks and health care use in medically complex patients

EL Tucher, AL Steele, CS Uratsu… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Integrated health care systems have initiated major investments to identify and
address social risks, particularly for patients with multiple medical conditions. Objective To …

Care fragmentation and readmission mortality and length of stay before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: data from the National Readmissions Database, 2018 …

S Turbow, T Walker, S Culler, MK Ali - BMC Health Services Research, 2024 - Springer
Importance A quarter of all 30-day readmissions involve fragmented care, where patients
return to a different hospital than their original admission; these readmissions are associated …

Social Determinants of Health and Disparities in Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Optimization for Heart Failure

JA Jacobs, I Ayodele, AP Bress, MR Sterling… - Circulation: Heart …, 2024 - ahajournals.org
BACKGROUND: Fewer than 20% of eligible patients with heart failure with reduced ejection
fraction receive all 4 pillars of guideline-directed medical therapy. Understanding disparities …

Achieving equity in hospital performance assessments using composite race-specific measures of risk-standardized readmission and mortality rates for heart failure

A Mentias, ED Peterson, N Keshvani, DJ Kumbhani… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The contemporary measures of hospital performance for heart failure
hospitalization and 30-day risk-standardized readmission rate (RSRR) and risk …

Optimizing Health Care Utilization for Patients With Complex Medical Needs—Should We Be Targeting Social Risks?

LC Pinheiro - JAMA Network Open, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
In recent years, increased attention has been focused on adverse social determinants of
health (SDOH) and health-related social needs (HRSN), which are known to have profound …

Racial, ethnic and sex disparity in acute heart failure patients with COVID-19: A nationwide analysis

A Hashem, A Khalouf, MS Mohamed, T Nayfeh… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Background Patients with acute heart failure (AHF) exacerbation are susceptible to
complications in the setting of COVID-19 infection. Data regarding the racial/ethnic and sex …

Pain and heart failure during transport by emergency medical services and its associated outcomes: Hospitalization, mortality, and length of stay

AB Smith, M Jung, SJ Pressler - Western journal of nursing …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Over 22% of patients with heart failure (HF) are transported by emergency
medical services (EMSs) for a primary complaint of pain. The relationship between a primary …

Patterns of diuretic titration during inpatient management of acute decompensated heart failure

G Bullock, JA Jacobs, JR Carey, IZ Pan, MS Kinsey… - American Heart …, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction Hospitalization rates for acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) have
increased, resulting in 6.5 million hospital days annually. Despite this, optimal diuretic …