Representativeness of a national heart failure quality-of-care registry:Comparison of OPTIMIZE-HF and Non-OPTIMIZE-HF medicare patients

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 377-384

  Curtis, Lesley H ^a,b   Greiner, Melissa A ^a   Hammill, Bradley G ^a   DiMartino, Lisa D ^a   Shea, Alisa M ^a   Hernandez, Adrian F ^b   Fonarow, Gregg C ^c  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Mortality; Outcome and process assessment; Patient readmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; AGED; COMOROS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REGISTER; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMOROS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77649101171     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.108.822692     Document Type: Article

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