Critical pathway for the management of acute heart failure at the veterans affairs san diego healthcare system: Transforming performance measures into cardiac care

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 153-172

  Gardetto, Nancy J ^a,b   Greaney, Karen ^a   Arai, Lisa ^a   Brenner, April ^a   Carroll, Karen C ^a   Howerton, Nancy M ^a   Lee, Melinda ^a   Pada, Laureen ^a   Tseng, Marilynne ^a   Maisel, Alan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA Cardiology 111 a   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF); Evidence based guidelines and HF core measures; Implementation of clinical pathway; Performance improvement

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PATHWAY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CORONARY CARE UNIT; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MONITORING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; ACUTE DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; CALIFORNIA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT READMISSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAGE;

EID: 58149120004     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: 15352811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HPC.0b013e31818207e4     Document Type: Article

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