Public policy for healthy living: How COVID-19 has changed the landscape

LP Whitsel, F Ajenikoko, PJ Chase, J Johnson… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had a transformational impact
on public policy as governments played a leading role, working alongside and coordinating …

Wearable biosensors in congenital heart disease: needs to advance the field

A Tandon, HH Nguyen, S Avula, DR Seshadri, A Patel… - JACC: Advances, 2023 - jacc.org
Traditional measures of clinical status and physiology have generally been based in health
care settings, episodic, short in duration, and performed at rest. Wearable biosensors …

Effect of a hospital and postdischarge quality improvement intervention on clinical outcomes and quality of care for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection …

AD DeVore, BB Granger, GC Fonarow, HR Al-Khalidi… - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Adoption of guideline-directed medical therapy for patients with heart failure is
variable. Interventions to improve guideline-directed medical therapy have failed to …

Value-based payment for clinicians treating cardiovascular disease: a policy statement from the American Heart Association

AT Sandhu, PA Heidenreich, W Borden, SA Farmer… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Clinician payment is transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based payment, with
reimbursement tied to health care quality and cost. However, the overarching goals of value …

[HTML][HTML] Rationale and design of a cluster-randomized pragmatic trial aimed at improving use of guideline directed medical therapy in outpatients with heart failure …

L Ghazi, NR Desai, M Simonov, Y Yamamoto… - American Heart …, 2022 - Elsevier
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is one of the most common chronic
illnesses in the United States and carries significant risk of morbidity and mortality. Use of …

A roadmap to reinvigorating training pathways focused on the care of patients with heart failure: shifting from failure to function

V Blumer, MM Kittleson, JR Teerlink… - … of cardiac failure, 2023 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A Roadmap to Reinvigorating Training Pathways Focused on the Care of Patients With Heart
Failure: Shifting From Failure to Function A Roadmap to Reinvigorating Training Pathways …

Machine​ learning algorithms for claims data‐based prediction of in‐hospital mortality in patients with heart failure

S König, V Pellissier, S Hohenstein, A Bernal… - ESC heart …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Models predicting mortality in heart failure (HF) patients are often limited with regard to
performance and applicability. The aim of this study was to develop a reliable algorithm to …

[HTML][HTML] Promoting informed decision-making in a primary care practice by implementing decision aids

CL Lewis, MP Pignone - North Carolina medical journal, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Empowering patients to be effective advocates for their health requires that they have
adequate information and understanding about their health conditions. Many patients have …

Blood pressure and glycemic control among ambulatory US adults with heart failure: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001 to 2018

L Rethy, THT Vu, NS Shah, MR Carnethon… - Circulation: Heart …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Multisociety guidelines recommend a goal systolic blood pressure (BP)< 130
mm Hg and a hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)< 8% in patients with heart failure (HF), regardless of …

[HTML][HTML] Value-based Reimbursement as a Mechanism to Achieve Social and Financial Impact in the Healthcare System

APB de Silva Etges, HH Liu, P Jones… - Journal of Health …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Value-based reimbursement strategies have been considered in the
continuous search for establishing a sustainable healthcare system. For models that have …