Utility of daily diuretic orders for identifying acute decompensated heart failure patients for quality improvement

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 148-151

  Campbell, Patrick T ^a   Tremaglio, Joseph ^a   Bhardwaj, Adarsh ^a   Ryan, Jason ^a  

^a UConn Health John Dempsy Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnosis; diuretics; heart failure

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BUMETANIDE; ETACRYNIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; TORASEMIDE;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; DIURETIC THERAPY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING CESSATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; COHORT STUDIES; DIURETICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956440011     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: 15352811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HPC.0b013e3181ed74c0     Document Type: Article

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